colonial
Example Sentences
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On the run from her well-to-do, stuffy colonial background, she launched herself into London’s bohemia.
Sea otters, now classified as an endangered species, once thrived along the Pacific Coast before the fur trade during westward colonial expansion drastically reduced their numbers.
From Science Daily
But in a surprise move, Deby ended military cooperation with its former colonial ruler in November 2024 and French troops began leaving the following month.
From Barron's
Mr. Hazareesingh, who teaches politics at Oxford, stays focused on the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade but includes the colonial territories of the Indian Ocean.
Perhaps less familiar to most readers but no less absorbing is the book’s treatment of colonial Spanish missionaries’ encounter with Aztec rituals.
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