Example Sentences

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But as human activities damage habitats and reduce biodiversity across regions, the number of possible colonizers falls.

From Science Daily • Feb. 18, 2026

Mexican identity is often described in terms of mestizaje, which Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos described as a virtuous “blending” of races, including Mexico’s Indigenous peoples and European colonizers.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2025

Ms. Barnéoud is sharpest when she examines the metaphors that immunologists and others have used to describe microchimeric cells, which have been characterized as invaders, migrants and colonizers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

The Spanish colonizers suppressed this intentional annual brush burning, claiming it was incompatible with agriculture.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2025

The Struggle is in your name, Samori—you were named for Samori Toure, who struggled against French colonizers for the right to his own black body.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates