colonial
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"You're selling back the access to the people," he says, adding that he believes this takes the country back to a kind of "colonial logic".
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Through their lens, the novel explores issues of love, culture, colonial history and power.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
The road’s original alignment followed the Camino Real and the Santa Fe Trail, both Spanish colonial routes.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
“The Complete Notebooks” traces Camus’s development from a budding writer in colonial Algeria to a journalist of the French Resistance to a revered public intellectual.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
I think it's from colonial times, but I’m not sure.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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