colony
Example Sentences
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Nigeria is a former British colony and London is home to a huge Nigerian diaspora.
From Barron's
“By the time the Scramble for Africa was over,” Martin Meredith tells us, the vagaries of geopolitical geometry had amalgamated “some 10,000 African polities . . . into forty European colonies and protectorates.”
What do you make of the scene from “Encounters at the End of the World” going viral, with people using the image of a penguin walking away from its colony as a symbol of nonconformity?
There were also several 19th Century chairs in the Anglo-Portuguese style sourced from Goa, which was once a Portuguese colony.
From BBC
These flows slowly push the bacterial colony outward, similar to leaves drifting along a thin stream.
From Science Daily
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