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And Indonesia’s independence leader, Sukarno, welcomed the Japanese as they drove out or jailed Dutch colonial officials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Many were acquired by John Henry Hutton, a colonial administrator in the Indian Civil Service and an anthropologist, who handed them to the museum more than a century ago.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Later that summer they told British colonial authorities that they were actually Swiss and named Beuret.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The region concerned used to be part of the former Malay-Muslim Patani sultanate but was annexed in the early 1900s by Buddhist-majority Thailand -- then Siam -- following an agreement with colonial power Britain.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Behind him, house after gorgeous colonial house passed in rapid-fire succession, their colors winking at us through her window.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

Many Americans in this 250th year of independence will look back proudly on those colonials who rebelled against British taxation by dumping tea in Boston Harbor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 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