How to Use colonization in a Sentence
colonization
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Most changes have come through the brute force of colonization.
—Kaitlyn Swan, refinery29.com, 30 June 2021
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There's no limit to the harm that is, can be, has been, and will be caused by colonization.
—Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 22 June 2021
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The grand goal of the Chinese state is to complete the colonization of Xinjiang.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
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The truth is that colonization of the East African coast did not end with the departure of the British in the middle of the 20th century.
—The Conversation, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
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Critics of the practice have said the process is racially skewed against the Maori, and is a legacy of colonization.
—Reuters, CNN, 16 Dec. 2020
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Then a sequence of colonizations over four centuries by the Portuguese, Dutch and British shaped the city.
—Scott Hocker, theweek, 15 Apr. 2024
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Deivid, on the other hand, is enamored with the Mars colonization project and dreams of going to space.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2023
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But few would say that Africans weren’t dealt a truly lousy card by colonization.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
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The legacy of colonization by the Dutch, Portuguese, and British left lasting scars.
—Christine Chitnis, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
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Musk has said the concept could work well in his future plans for Mars colonization.
—Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2020
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The area had once been the home of the Tongva people, Gorman noted, pre-colonization.
—Doreen St. Félix, Vogue, 7 Apr. 2021
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The first colonization of Mexico was of course by Spain.
—Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
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Musk next set his sights on a lofty goal: space exploration, and the future colonization Mars.
—Raisa Bruner, Time, 27 Apr. 2022
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That very first meeting was just an eye-opener for me in terms of the colonization of the Inuit in Greenland, how it was done and the systemic tools that were used.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
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The festival’s roots lie in the Portuguese colonization of Brazil.
—Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
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This myth seems to have stemmed from a small study in mice that showed the nasal spray influenza vaccine led to an increase in group A strep colonization.
—Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2022
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There are ideas too: about moral impunity and colonization and the doubling of the self and, well, mommy issues?
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2023
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Mauna Kea is a product of the long-standing hand of colonization.
—Eunica Escalante, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2021
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In 1655, the grounds of the Estate were established when the British bested the Spanish in the ongoing colonization of Jamaica.
—Bee Quammie, refinery29.com, 23 Mar. 2023
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This crisis is the result of hundreds of years of genocide and colonization.
—Kali Simmons, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2021
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The schools were part of a broader push to erase Indigenous cultures, a step in the colonization of North America.
—NBC News, 15 July 2021
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The board said the names were linked to slavery, oppression, genocide and colonization.
—Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2021
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In some ways, the current crisis is a new version of what has been happening from the age of colonization onward.
—Tatiana Schlossberg, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2022
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By 1610, the area had emerged as a fixture on Spanish trade routes, leading to Santa Fe’s colonization.
—Alexandra Malmed, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2023
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Coffee first entered the scene in Vietnam in the 19th century with the French colonization.
—Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 July 2021
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His novels have often stemmed from his belief that the legacy of colonization has been played down.
—Constant Méheut, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
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While the effort has set into high gear, there are plenty of critics of space colonization.
—Devika Rao, The Week, 9 May 2023
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There are three main aspects to the vision being laid out by Musk (setting aside his plans for space colonization).
—Paris Marx, Wired, 5 July 2022
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Extreme microbes and space colonization There are microbes on Earth that can survive in extremely harsh environments.
—Blaise Manga Enuh, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2025
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Yet, despite the seemingly good educational intentions behind them, the villages relied on views of the country’s Indigenous peoples that were defined during colonization by White settlers.
—Ashley Gardini, JSTOR Daily, 11 Mar. 2025
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