colonist
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Instead of dancing xenomorphs, Bong made “Mickey 17,” in theaters Friday, a bleakly comedic sci-fi thriller set aboard a colonist spaceship bound for a distant icy planet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025
However, the researchers report their work revealed the "richness, abundance and composition" of the bee populations were "signficantly impacted by agricultural colonization after as little as 10-17 years of settlement by colonist farmers and ranchers."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024
Pocahontas died several years later in March 1617 in Gravesend, England, while colonist John Rolfe died around March 1622, he added.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2023
It stands on the site where Samuel de Champlain, the French colonist and navigator who founded Quebec and New France, built a chapel in 1633.
From Reuters ● Jul. 28, 2022
According to most estimates, by the mid-1770s, the average American colonist consumed more than three quarts of molasses a year—making it an irreplaceable part of the colonial economy.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
One of the main reasons colonists rebelled against the crown was that they wanted more Indigenous land—they wanted to move farther west into North America, but the king was telling them no.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026
This view came from England “and crossed the Atlantic with the colonists — and was adopted with little fanfare after the Revolution,” he wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
In another pending case about police sweeps of cellphone location data, lawyers debated whether warrants requiring Google to share information were akin to how British customs officers harassed colonists before the American Revolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
British colonists transformed khichuri into their own dish, called kedgeree, swapping out lentils for boiled eggs and smoked haddock.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
In fact, these three ships and all of the men on board are his kingdom until he drops us colonists safely in the New World.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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