colonizer
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Powerful new international circuits of credit were built that deepened America’s integration into a British-led global economy and helped pave the way for the young U.S. to leapfrog its former colonizer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
Rajoelina said he took up dual citizenship to secure his children’s education in former colonizer France.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
The message that Hansen came to deliver was drowned out by the demonstrators, who shouted at Hansen while unveiling a banner that read, “Gringo colonizer fuera del Mirador.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2023
President Idriss Déby, who was fatally wounded on the battlefield in 2021, tamped down multiple rebellions during his 30-year reign, sometimes with the support of Chad’s former colonizer, France.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2023
There will always be, in emerging nations, an enduring attraction to the ways of the colonizer — I myself was not immune to it.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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Meanwhile the large sugar and tobacco plantations that once belonged to former colonizers were quickly being absorbed by American corporations — not by Cubans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026
Ninety-nine years later, the country expelled the last of its colonizers, but by then the country was thoroughly hooked on cà phê.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
But as human activities damage habitats and reduce biodiversity across regions, the number of possible colonizers falls.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026
“The presence of terrestrial microorganism within a sample of Ryugu underlines that microorganisms are the world's greatest colonizers and adept at circumventing contamination controls,” the authors conclude.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2024
To Indigenous peoples, these colonizers sometimes seemed—and often were—incompetent and virtually helpless.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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