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If Greenland was to break from its Danish colonizer, it would become, five centuries after Columbus, the only independent nation in the Western Hemisphere whose governing language remained that of its pre-European ancestors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

“They basically just act as the first pioneer or colonizer species that are able to get a hold on a devastated kind of landscape and start to bring some life back to it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 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

Colonial overtones were hard to escape in the match between another North African nation, Tunisia, and France, in which a former colony defeated its former colonizer, a favorite to win the tournament.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2022

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

Early Portuguese colonizers described those forests as forming a dense tangle, or "maranhão."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 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

We will start our trek with a gentle stroll to the Oak of the Golden Dream, where the first authenticated gold discovery by colonizers took place in California in 1842.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2026

The soldiers and colonizers are confined to bland, calorie-specific rations.

From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2025

The first British colonial militias fought Indigenous people and French and Spanish colonizers.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz