Example Sentences

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He did not allow himself to sink into the semicolonial comforts of a career expat, or the ready-made opportunities of a good department man.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 24, 2015

Sir Victor would have appreciated the irony: The landmarks of Shanghai’s semicolonial past, vestiges of a once-reviled foreign occupation, have lately become some of its most coveted addresses.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2014