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colony

[kol-uh-nee] / ˈkɒl ə ni /


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The former French colony borders the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, which provides access to the Red Sea from the Gulf of Aden, through which passes a large portion of trade between Asia and the West.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

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

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

Mr. Ozon’s star is the appropriately stone-faced Benjamin Voisin as Meursault, who like Camus is an ethnically French citizen of Algeria, which for more than a century was a French colony.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

In Africa, French and British troops invaded the German protectorate of Togoland, while German forces attacked the British colony of South Africa.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman




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