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colonial

[kuh-loh-nee-uhl] / kəˈloʊ ni əl /


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The road’s original alignment followed the Camino Real and the Santa Fe Trail, both Spanish colonial routes.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

“The Complete Notebooks” traces Camus’s development from a budding writer in colonial Algeria to a journalist of the French Resistance to a revered public intellectual.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

What they did share was a brutal colonial past, and a longing to achieve economic self-determination.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

L.A.’s roots in colonial agriculture run long and deep.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Finally, we go to a colonial schoolroom and join the rest of our class.

From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt




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