colonial
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England’s colonial enterprise in Ireland played out during Shakespeare’s youth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
We’ve lived in the same four-bedroom colonial for 32 of those years.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
For decades, India has been home to well-established local boarding schools modelled on the colonial British public-school system, serving elite, aristocratic families.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
To those images, he adds still lifes he has made of colonial art collections or the architecture of old slave dungeons in Ghana, where the imprisoned were held before transport to the Americas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
The Chincha elite, afraid to take on the Inka army, always chose compliance over valor, and were rewarded with plum positions in the colonial government.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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The Singhs sold clocks and watches to the colonials while secretly rebelling against British rule.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
Stately, white colonials are on one block, while modest Spanish revivals sit on the next.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025
The wealthiest and most international city in America, its grand mansions and comfortable houses would obviously be useful as a base for an invading army that was just beginning a campaign against uppity colonials.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023
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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