colonial

England’s colonial enterprise in Ireland played out during Shakespeare’s youth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

A Buckingham Palace spokesman said the king would acknowledge the "darkest days" of colonial rule and slavery during the trip.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

We’ve lived in the same four-bedroom colonial for 32 of those years.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

The country's old colonial roots and new money afford the legacy institutions a significant business opportunity, but it is unlikely to be big enough to offset the loss of the Chinese market, at least immediately.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Sometimes Ifemelu imagined him in a classroom in the fifties, an overzealous colonial subject wearing an ill-fitting school uniform of cheap cotton, jostling to impress his missionary teachers.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Their seasoned troops, reinforced by Hessian mercenaries, faced an amateurish and poorly provisioned army of colonials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Stately, white colonials are on one block, while modest Spanish revivals sit on the next.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025

Developers opened up this part of Arlington in the 1950s, building ranches and colonials, working from the same three or four floor plans across a dozen square miles.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 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

He despised those American colonials who had fought against his England, yet he still chose to settle in Philadelphia, where he set up a royalist newspaper called The Porcupine's Gazette.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy