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
John Rolfe, a new colonist, began growing tobacco in James Town.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
Vocabulary lists containing colonist
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