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

In early voyages to the New World, Euro Americans brought their ideas about identity, spirituality, ethnicity and skin color as they first encountered Native Americans.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 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

The two films have a thematic link, too: These are stories of arrival in the New World, albeit ones set some 200 years apart.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

In fact, these three ships and all of the men on board are his kingdom until he drops us colonists safely in the New World.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone