colony

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Mr. Ozon’s star is the appropriately stone-faced Benjamin Voisin as Meursault, who like Camus is an ethnically French citizen of Algeria, which for more than a century was a French colony.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

The colony was located inside a dead tree standing about eight meters above the forest floor.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026

This means the queens live that long too - because as soon as she dies, the colony collapses and any surviving workers will look for another nest.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

China promised the Hong Kong people that it would protect their freedom after it took over the British colony in 1997.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

They formed a little colony of their own, living midway between the town and open country in brick cottages with whitewashed walls and red-tiled roofs.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya