colonizers
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pluralof colonizer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
colonizer
Example Sentences
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Early Portuguese colonizers described those forests as forming a dense tangle, or "maranhão."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
Though colonizers tried to erase their traditions through forced conversion to Catholicism, enslaved Africans found ways to adapt and protect their spiritual practices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
The soldiers and colonizers are confined to bland, calorie-specific rations.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2025
The first Jamestown colonizers were among the many early arrivals who could not have survived without the help of Indigenous peoples.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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