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colonist

[kol-uh-nist] / ˈkɒl ə nɪst /


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However, the researchers report their work revealed the "richness, abundance and composition" of the bee populations were "signficantly impacted by agricultural colonization after as little as 10-17 years of settlement by colonist farmers and ranchers."

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2024

Pocahontas died several years later in March 1617 in Gravesend, England, while colonist John Rolfe died around March 1622, he added.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2023

It stands on the site where Samuel de Champlain, the French colonist and navigator who founded Quebec and New France, built a chapel in 1633.

From Reuters • Jul. 28, 2022

Senegalese Author Mariama Bâ: “The assimilationist dream of the colonist drew into its crucible our mode of thought and way of life.”

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Zeroing in on every colonist, looking for something, anything that would show them to be a Butterfly.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin




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