colonial
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The two of them live on-site in what looks like a family home straight out of a 1990s Disney film, a white colonial home with blue shutters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
During colonial expansion, European breeds spread across much of the world and replaced numerous older lineages.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
With the riches of the sea at their fingertips, British colonial officials sought new methods of extraction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The legacy of the violent colonial period continues to weigh on the foreign policies of both North and South Korea.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
The Nielsens’ home is a two-story colonial painted yellow with black shutters and a long slate walkway leading to the front door.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
Their seasoned troops, reinforced by Hessian mercenaries, faced an amateurish and poorly provisioned army of colonials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
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
Proponents of prohibition argued that drinking culture was alien to India – while that’s debatable, the colonials filled their coffers with the liquor tax and certainly encouraged it.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 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
Fortunately there were all sorts and types of colonials.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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