How to Use decolonization in a Sentence
decolonization
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So, to start out, what does decolonization mean to you?
—Camilo Garzón, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2022
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The death of Lumumba was a signal moment of both the Cold War and decolonization, two defining events of the post-1945 world.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
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At the same time, he was not threatened by decolonization.
—Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2021
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And that’s decolonization to me because at the end of the day, everyone is colonized.
—Amanda Alcantara, refinery29.com, 7 June 2023
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Nostalgia doesn’t square very well with the process of decolonization, but there’s no dodging loss.
—Curbed, 17 Feb. 2022
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Four years later, the process of decolonization in East, West, and Central Africa was largely complete.
—Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
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This figure has changed little since the 1980s, the point at which decolonization was mostly finished.
—WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
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And also the decolonization of travel for me includes talking about African cities.
—Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2020
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The idea of a rebellion orgy gave me new respect for this silly cocktail, popular in the Eighties, amid a nostalgia for the tropics, in the wake of the decolonization of much of the globe.
—Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
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Some of the major problems with the term decolonization is that it has been watered down to mean any kind of conversation about colonialism.
—Camilo Garzón, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2022
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And for such a bright future to be possible, Smith says, there must be a decolonization of education.
—Clara Longo De Freitas, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 5 July 2021
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Modern players see it as an active form of decolonization and a way to connect with their ancestral roots.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
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It will be transferred to the warehouse of a Ghent city museum pending a decision from a city's commission in charge of decolonization projects.
—Fox News, 30 June 2020
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All the same, his culinary approach to food decolonization is an intermarriage of foods.
—James Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Aug. 2021
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Indeed, one of the most eye-catching failures of the decolonization discourse is to ignore the extent to which colonized users have made colonial languages their own.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
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That Ian Fleming should have thought about decolonization at all was surprising.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
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There are signs that an awareness of the need for Russian decolonization is starting to dawn in Washington and other Western capitals.
—Casey Michel, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
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The issue is part of the much broader debate around decolonization efforts in Hawaii, which have surged since the economy crumbled in the wake of pandemic travel restrictions.
—Zoe Glasser, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
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At a time when words like decolonization and sustainability are in everyone's news feed, Puerto Ricans are using food to spell out what these words can mean in the Caribbean.
—Paola Singer, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2022
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Addis was the city that African leaders descended upon to discuss things like decolonization.
—New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
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The reason, says commission head and deputy mayor Andriy Moskalenko, is decolonization.
—Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2022
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For only then will the deeper structural changes of a suddenly unfamiliar world come into view—the changes that flow from decolonization, the central event of the twentieth century.
—Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 21 Oct. 2020
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Historical accounts of the era of African decolonization and independence often frame the politics of the moment in terms of the ideological conflict of the Cold War.
—Frank Gerits, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
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Telling our own story: the aesthetics of decolonization.
—Vogue, 29 Nov. 2022
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That rejection encouraged the process of decolonization that resulted in the independence of dozens of countries across the world in the twentieth century.
—Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
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But as much as British colonialism has shaped identities in the diaspora, so has the process of decolonization and independence movements.
—Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2022
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The national decolonization project is pushing for this.
—Aarian Marshall, Quartz, 20 Apr. 2021
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How does a shadow state like Haiti achieve decolonization from neocolonialism?
—Marlene L. Daut, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
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The ceremonies call out to the spiritual world and are seen as a decolonization effort by many people in the diaspora, Puerto Rican and otherwise.
—Alicia Ramírez, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2021
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This tiny act of decolonization helps roll back the influence of colonialism and highlights the original linguistic landscape that characterized the city.
—Anna Luisa Daigneault, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2021
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