colonial
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The two of them live on-site in what looks like a family home straight out of a 1990s Disney film, a white colonial home with blue shutters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
North Korea has recently been hurling criticism at Japan, a former regional colonial power, over what Pyongyang describes as its remilitarisation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Ms. Fernando, an environmental historian at Stony Brook University, writes about the encounters between what she characterizes as colonial and precolonial forms of knowledge during this period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Head of Marine at the Cumbria Wildlife Trust, Georgia de Jong Cleyndert, said although the "incredible" blue creatures looked like jellyfish, they were actually colonial hydrozoans.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
“The whole colonial experience of trying to solve a related series of 'Indian problems’ had much to do with giving the colonists an identity indissolubly linked to America,” he wrote.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Their seasoned troops, reinforced by Hessian mercenaries, faced an amateurish and poorly provisioned army of colonials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Proponents of prohibition argued that drinking culture was alien to India – while that’s debatable, the colonials filled their coffers with the liquor tax and certainly encouraged it.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2025
The houses — in a mix of styles including split-levels and Dutch colonials — are on quarter-acre lots surrounded by mature trees and shrubs.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022
In western and southern 22207, new construction is beginning to overtake the postwar ranches, colonials, and split-levels built in the first wave of suburbanization.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2020
Fortunately there were all sorts and types of colonials.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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