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colony

[kol-uh-nee] / ˈkɒl ə ni /


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Its first game against No. 14 Senegal — a longtime French colony — will be its toughest in group play.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

SpaceX’s plans, according to its recent regulatory filings, include asteroid mining and a colony on Mars.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

Davji Bhimji Atellah, KMPDU's secretary general, said the union "will not sit back and watch Kenya be treated as a containment colony for a lethal pathogen that we did not generate."

From BBC • May 29, 2026

So to keep him focused, the board issued him one billion shares contingent on his ability to establish “a permanent human colony on Mars with at least one million inhabitants.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

The colony itself is a cluster of leaking shacks with more than six hundred patients shoved inside.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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