colonizer

Example Sentences

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Ever since colonial times, they’ve had to fight off violent incursions, first from Portuguese colonizers and more recently illegal gold miners.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ms. Barnéoud is sharpest when she examines the metaphors that immunologists and others have used to describe microchimeric cells, which have been characterized as invaders, migrants and colonizers.

From The Wall Street Journal

Powerful new international circuits of credit were built that deepened America’s integration into a British-led global economy and helped pave the way for the young U.S. to leapfrog its former colonizer.

From The Wall Street Journal

Though colonizers tried to erase their traditions through forced conversion to Catholicism, enslaved Africans found ways to adapt and protect their spiritual practices.

From Los Angeles Times

The colonizers introduced slavery to these shores two years before the first “Thanksgiving” in 1621.

From Los Angeles Times