colonizer
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If Greenland was to break from its Danish colonizer, it would become, five centuries after Columbus, the only independent nation in the Western Hemisphere whose governing language remained that of its pre-European ancestors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Rajoelina said he took up dual citizenship to secure his children’s education in former colonizer France.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 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
One casualty, however, may be the country’s relationship with France, its longtime colonizer, with which a rapprochement has just begun after decades of animosity over their troubled past.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
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
But as human activities damage habitats and reduce biodiversity across regions, the number of possible colonizers falls.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026
We started our hike by heading to the Oak of the Golden Dream, where gold was first discovered by colonizers in 1842.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
Mexican identity is often described in terms of mestizaje, which Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos described as a virtuous “blending” of races, including Mexico’s Indigenous peoples and European colonizers.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2025
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
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