colony
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Navratil has tried to trap this colony unsuccessfully twice before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
This spacing helps ensure that chemical signals reach only the next colony in the sequence, allowing information to move through the circuit in a single direction.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
It is more of a vassal, or protectorate, or a colony.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Greenland, a Danish colony for three centuries and now an autonomous territory, still has a complicated relationship with Copenhagen.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
I would learn the Algonquian language even better, and I would be able to trade and help the colony.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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“Being from Wisconsin, I wasn’t used to seeing colonies of stray cats everywhere because that’s a very real problem that’s going on in L.A.,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
The largest circuit demonstrated in the study contained 24 interconnected bacterial colonies and was designed to add two inputs together.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
The initiative comes as France is seeking to improve relations with Africa, particularly in former colonies with which it has prickly ties.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
In Mozambique, the isolated colonies are relatively safe from local Islamist violence affecting larger population centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
So along with a rivalry to grab overseas colonies, Britain and Germany engaged in a costly competition to build bigger and better battleships.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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