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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

Rajoelina said he took up dual citizenship to secure his children’s education in former colonizer France.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

“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

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

The colonizers, four Chagossians aged 31 to 72, clambered aboard a dinghy and came ashore, waving British and American flags.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

But as human activities damage habitats and reduce biodiversity across regions, the number of possible colonizers falls.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 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

The Spanish colonizers suppressed this intentional annual brush burning, claiming it was incompatible with agriculture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2025

The British colonizers were driven by the belief that they were entitled by divine decree and by royal declaration to live on and use the land and resources of North America.

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