Example Sentences

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The first episode, “Echoes of Empires,” highlights Indigenous communities pre-colonization.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2024

“I’m starting to see that in so many cookbooks, going back to pre-colonization in Filipino food, in Brazilian, in just so many different cultures,” she says.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2022

They are snapshots of the world or of our state pre-colonization and they're just so beautiful .

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2022

“A lot of what we’re seeing in Missouri is second-growth,” which has little resemblance to the native forests that existed pre-colonization and provided multiple uses.

From Scientific American • Aug. 24, 2022

It would be difficult enough to finish the pre-colonization survey in the allotted time under the best of circumstances, and this was hardly what could be called a smooth beginning.

From The Unprotected Species by Sturgis, Melvin