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colonizer

noun as in imperialist

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Ever since colonial times, they’ve had to fight off violent incursions, first from Portuguese colonizers and more recently illegal gold miners.

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.

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The colonizers introduced slavery to these shores two years before the first “Thanksgiving” in 1621.

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