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When wider fame came, he was in his early 30s, elderly beside his rock and folk peers, but colonially inclined to be less assertive.

From Slate Nov. 11, 2016

While Green iguanas in parts of their range nest individually, those that come to Slothia nest colonially and therefore synchronize their nesting.

From Scientific American Sep. 17, 2012

It’s also an abandonment of a political ideology often called Pan-Africanism — most popular in the years right after independence — that advocates strength in African unity and the dissolution of colonially imposed borders.

From Washington Post

The quantity of yarn, on the contrary, exported colonially, does not reach to one-sixteenth of the total colonial exports.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

“What on earth do we stay on here for then?” says the elder of the two children, who, like many Indian and colonially raised children, is not slow to volunteer an opinion.

From The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan by Mitford, Bertram

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