colony
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Its first game against No. 14 Senegal — a longtime French colony — will be its toughest in group play.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
SpaceX’s plans, according to its recent regulatory filings, include asteroid mining and a colony on Mars.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
Max Mathiasin, a lawmaker from the former colony turned overseas territory of Guadeloupe who is championing the bill, last week said repealing the decrees would be a "powerful symbolic and political gesture".
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
Presumably Musk’s dreamed-of colony on Mars would have other job opportunities, too.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
In the late 1800s, long before the start of the Cold War, France took control of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, ruling the three countries as a colony known as French Indochina.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Vocabulary lists containing colony
American History I
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Ancient Greece - Introductory
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The Mayflower Compact (1620)
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