colonialist
Americannoun
adjective
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The fictional movie he’s making looks stiff, a period epic about Spain’s colonialist withdrawal from the Sahara in the 1930s, which doubles as a metaphor for the father’s destructive absence from his now-adult child’s life.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Another leading Egyptologist, Dr Monica Hanna, names the same objects, "taken under a colonialist pretext," as ones which must be repatriated.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
Indigenous and African communities, in particular, have pressed institutions to reckon with their colonialist pasts and repatriate stolen or looted antiquities.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
“What we’re trying to do over the course of these four films is make that arc really palpable, starting with sort of obediently following a very nationalist, colonialist narrative.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
He often incurred the hostility of ultra-imperialist and of colonialist alike, going too slow for the one and too fast for the other.
From The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time by Oscar Douglas Skelton
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