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colonial

[kuh-loh-nee-uhl] / kəˈloʊ ni əl /


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“Is it based on colonial standards? Or is it based on maintaining our cultural richness and our legacy, that is handed down to us regardless of where we are?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

The study, "Large size of the Australian Indigenous population prior to its massive decline following colonial invasion," was published in Nature Human Behaviour.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

After America defeated the Marianas’ colonial ruler in the Spanish-American War, it wanted a base to project power over the western Pacific.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

The palace said discussions about the colonial legacy and the slave trade were "important" but "primarily matters for governments to address".

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Even the health center was in an old colonial building with a stone hearth.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

Many Americans in this 250th year of independence will look back proudly on those colonials who rebelled against British taxation by dumping tea in Boston Harbor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

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

The term is also historically inaccurate, he said, because the first U.S. president and his contemporaries would not have identified as colonials.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2023

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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