colonizer

Example Sentences

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“They basically just act as the first pioneer or colonizer species that are able to get a hold on a devastated kind of landscape and start to bring some life back to it.”

From Los Angeles Times

This linguistic adeptness causes tension for both authors, who resent that their American upbringings confined them to English — what Ng calls the “barbarian’s language” and Wong “the language of the colonizer.”

From New York Times

N|uu was spoken by one of many hunter-gatherer groups that populated Southern Africa before the arrival of European colonizers.

From Reuters

“I will not be interested in watching the news or whatever is happening over there because we have been mistreated back then by those colonizers,” he said.

From Washington Times

Centuries after Spanish colonizers arrived in the Western Hemisphere, the Maya continue to struggle against poverty, discrimination and brutal oppression.

From Los Angeles Times