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
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
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
Ms. Barnéoud is sharpest when she examines the metaphors that immunologists and others have used to describe microchimeric cells, which have been characterized as invaders, migrants and colonizers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
“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
This forced some Native communities to depend on the colonizers for supplies.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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