colonial
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The two of them live on-site in what looks like a family home straight out of a 1990s Disney film, a white colonial home with blue shutters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
North Korea has recently been hurling criticism at Japan, a former regional colonial power, over what Pyongyang describes as its remilitarisation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
During colonial expansion, European breeds spread across much of the world and replaced numerous older lineages.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
They bought the three-bedroom colonial in Peabody for $751,000 in mid-June with a 30-year mortgage with a rate of 5.85%.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Just by Robbie’s armpit, a little man in a three-pointed hat and a colonial jacket stared suspiciously off to the side, one hand gripping his sheathed sword.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
Many Americans in this 250th year of independence will look back proudly on those colonials who rebelled against British taxation by dumping tea in Boston Harbor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
Stately, white colonials are on one block, while modest Spanish revivals sit on the next.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025
Developers opened up this part of Arlington in the 1950s, building ranches and colonials, working from the same three or four floor plans across a dozen square miles.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025
The term is also historically inaccurate, he said, because the first U.S. president and his contemporaries would not have identified as colonials.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2023
Fortunately there were all sorts and types of colonials.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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