colony
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By helping ants learn bait locations more quickly and recruit more nestmates, caffeine could increase how effectively poison spreads through a colony before the ants detect it.
From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2026
Its special place in the world ended with the handover of the British colony to China in 1997.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
The former Portuguese colony is still struggling with the legacy of the civil war that followed independence in 1975.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
Friday's meeting at the Vatican comes three days before Pope Leo visits the former French colony of Algeria, the first trip there by a pontiff.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
Junior goes up front to direct Bertha to the colony while I catch Alex and JP up on things at the kitchen booth.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing colony
American History I
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Ancient Greece - Introductory
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The Mayflower Compact (1620)
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