How to Use anti-colonial in a Sentence

anti-colonial

adjective
  • Both the song and the movie emphasize strong anti-colonial themes.
    — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Russia was pitched as an ally in this anti-colonial struggle.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 10 May 2026
  • What about criticizing their anti-colonial vision on that score?
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
  • This is the anti-colonial, anti-complacency guitar album of the very young year so far.
    — Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 9 Feb. 2026
  • This anti-colonial approach reframes our existence on this planet as a debt to the future instead of an inheritance from the past.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-colonial space heist to save an alien civilization.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 21 June 2024
  • Despite his strong anti-colonial stance, Mamdani certainly seemed to charm the King during their meeting.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The India of his youth was still deeply scarred by a massive anti-colonial uprising known as the Indian Mutiny.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Oct. 2025
  • But at the time, many others in Latin America saw the Bolsheviks as part of a global anti-colonial wave.
    — Tony Wood, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2026
  • What has changed is that China is no longer outwardly utilizing anti-colonial rhetoric regarding Kanak.
    — Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • But Robeson has been relegated to obscurity because of his pro-Black and anti-colonial views.
    — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will visit a town founded by runaway slaves that has become a symbol of anti-colonial resistance.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Next came history class — Rose’s favorite — and a lesson on 20th-century anti-colonial struggles.
    — Lorenzo Tugnoli, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Prigozhin has also pitched his services to Niger, hailing the recent military coup there as an anti-colonial triumph in an audio message posted on Telegram.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The first anti-colonial freedom fighter in Malawi, John Chilembwe, was a Baptist minister.
    — Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The album’s name refers to the anti-colonial cultural movement in Mali led by the griots before the country’s independence in 1960.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
  • Fans labelled the orcas’ behavior as anti-colonial protest or anti-capitalist direct action, and pledged solidarity with the ocean’s saboteurs.
    — Rachel Riederer, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Russia’s support during Africa’s anti-colonial struggles also bolstered political ties with some African nations.
    — Camille Behnke, NBC News, 29 July 2023
  • Amidst an anti-colonial revolt, and with Jewish refugees fleeing persecution from Europe, all sides converge in a decisive moment for the entire region.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The Portuguese director delves into his country’s colonial history to create a new form of anti-colonial drama that’s both analytical and ironic.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Amidst an anti-colonial revolt, and Jewish refugees fleeing persecution from Europe, all sides converge in a decisive moment for the entire region.
    — Martin Dale, Variety, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Moscow has capitalized on that anti-colonial movement to stretch its influence across the continent, fostering pro-Russia support in Niger.
    — Joseph Ataman, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
  • And so, on the one hand, the Monroe Doctrine, which is only a couple of sentences in a long address that Monroe gave to Congress, is an anti-colonial document.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Nasser’s status grew further through his anti-colonial sentiments and victories, like his handling of the Suez Crisis of 1956.
    — Jonathan Powell, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
  • During anti-colonial revolts in the 19th century, many of the courtesans’ residences became hideout spots for Indian rebels.
    — Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 2 May 2024
  • But their politics ultimately feed a worldview that’s inclusive, anti-colonial, and conscious of the ways that sectarianism has been used to break working-class solidarity.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Aside from characters just straight-up saying it sometimes, Knight’s anti-colonial interpretation of the material is mostly couched in a broader aesthetic of theatrical grit.
    — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The anti-colonial battle against extractivism is continuously being renovated in more radical and aggressive forms of methods of resistance.
    — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 29 May 2023
  • But Danielle Wood, a leading anti-colonial space intellectual, simply sees an African people seizing what’s entitled to them under space law through a commercial partnership.
    — Khari Johnson, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But the underlying intellectual paradigm of construing all human interactions as racial, and all history as colonial or anti-colonial, will have to give way to some new fashion, probably no more correct but, one hopes, less pernicious.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023

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