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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

The message that Hansen came to deliver was drowned out by the demonstrators, who shouted at Hansen while unveiling a banner that read, “Gringo colonizer fuera del Mirador.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2023

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

Much of the Arab world sees a chance for a former colony to give its one-time colonizer its comeuppance.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2022

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

Early Portuguese colonizers described those forests as forming a dense tangle, or "maranhão."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

When European colonizers came to New Zealand in the 1800s, it changed the indigenous food.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

Meanwhile the large sugar and tobacco plantations that once belonged to former colonizers were quickly being absorbed by American corporations — not by Cubans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

Very early on, the colonizers recognized that smallpox could easily wipe out an Indigenous population, leaving land available for settlement.

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