colonialist
Americannoun
adjective
Example Sentences
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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
I was transported to the historical epoch when almost the entire continent was shedding its colonialist rule and the associated attire and stepping onto the world stage transformed.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
It had been in Europe since it had been taken by a German colonialist at the beginning of the last century.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023
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
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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