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colonial

[kuh-loh-nee-uhl] / kəˈloʊ ni əl /


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On previous occasions, the King has used strong language, such as talking about his "greatest sorrow and regret" at the "abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence" of the colonial era on a visit to Kenya.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

The Caribbean tour has again thrust King Charles into the difficult debates over the UK's colonial legacy in the region.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

But Britain's central role in slavery and mistreatment of its colonial subjects have traced the contours of the trip.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

His grandfather Lewis Morris became the colonial governor of New Jersey; his father, Lewis Morris Jr., was an admiralty court judge in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Some 330,000 enslaved people were brought to the future United States of America, starting in the earliest colonial days to 1775, just before the American Revolution.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

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

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

Year-round, elegant colonials and ramblers, with their classic details, red brick and stonework, grace Colonial Village in Northwest Washington.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 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


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