New World

Example Sentences

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But in doing so he has reopened a fierce debate over the colonisation of the New World.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Only the practical rationality and moral rootedness of the New World can redeem the old.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

By 1854, Cuba was one of Spain’s few remaining New World colonies, and Southern expansionists coveted it—and its lucrative sugar plantations—as a new U.S. slave state.

From Barron's • Jan. 18, 2026

Another multigenerational saga, spanning more than three centuries and 700 pages, this 2016 novel by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author tracks the deforestation of the New World over 300 years, beginning in the 17th century.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025

We are the two boys Reverend Hunt decided to bring with him on this journey to the New World.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone