colony
Example Sentences
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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
The performance milestones in the first batch of shares include the company achieving certain market capitalization levels and establishing a permanent human colony on Mars with at least one million inhabitants.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
SpaceX’s plans, according to its recent regulatory filings, include asteroid mining and a colony on Mars.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
Western Sahara was a Spanish colony from 1884 to 1976.
From BBC • 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
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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