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colony

[kol-uh-nee] / ˈkɒl ə ni /


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Samantha Eden, assistant curator, said the zoo started with six snails and recently started a new colony.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Normally, that intense social cooperation helps the colony survive.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Enslaved Africans had lived in New York since its days as a Dutch colony.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

The Shanghai-born former shipping tycoon was hand-picked by Beijing to run the former British colony after its return to Chinese rule in 1997 and served until 2005.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

As I understand by report I am much charged with starving the colony, I did always give every man his allowance faithfully, both of corn, oil, aqua vitae, etc., as was by the council proportioned.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

More than 90 percent of emperor penguin colonies could be near-extinct by 2100 if sea ice loss persists at its current rate.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

As the podcast gained momentum, and Levine chatted with experts and listeners, he developed a hunch: Perhaps this young woman was the daughter of someone profiting from Europe’s vast economic power over its colonies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Much of that time was spent in the Mars Defense Force, which protected Earth colonies on Mars.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Unlike subterranean termites, which maintain colonies connected to the soil, drywood termites can live entirely within pieces of wood.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

The importance of rangers to the defense and expansion of the colonies increased in the decades that followed.

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




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