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colonizer

noun as in imperialist

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

In a vicious cycle, colonizers or imperial powers justify their borders and walls in the name of “security” while protecting themselves from those desperate to escape their domination.

From Salon

It’s as if he’s claiming nature’s untrampled territory with his reverential gaze — a distinctly political act for a colonizer.

The Spanish colonizers suppressed this intentional annual brush burning, claiming it was incompatible with agriculture.

“The presence of terrestrial microorganism within a sample of Ryugu underlines that microorganisms are the world's greatest colonizers and adept at circumventing contamination controls,” the authors conclude.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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