colonizer
Example Sentences
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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.
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.
Though colonizers tried to erase their traditions through forced conversion to Catholicism, enslaved Africans found ways to adapt and protect their spiritual practices.
From Los Angeles Times
The Spanish colonizers suppressed this intentional annual brush burning, claiming it was incompatible with agriculture.
From Los Angeles Times
“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
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