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
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
Still, to some in Burkina Faso’s military, Damiba was seen as too cozy with former colonizer France, which maintains a military presence in Africa’s Sahel region to help countries fight Islamic extremists.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 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
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
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
Mexican identity is often described in terms of mestizaje, which Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos described as a virtuous “blending” of races, including Mexico’s Indigenous peoples and European colonizers.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2025
What do you imagine North America looked like when colonizers first came from Europe?
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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