colonizer
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Other tracks like “Plantación Adentro,” detailed the story of Camilo Manrique, a fictionalized enslaved character who died at the hands of a Spanish colonizer in 1745.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026
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
As Brigham Young, the Mormon colonizer, said, “This is the place.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
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
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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
The Spanish colonizers suppressed this intentional annual brush burning, claiming it was incompatible with agriculture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 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
Because of their key role in establishing and populating a colony, settlers may be called colonizers.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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