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  • verb Present participle of recolonise.

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Examples

  • Of course modern transport and existing infrastructure would ensure it went much faster this time, with new settlements in Kansas City and Miami etc being quickly established and recolonising the surrounding areas.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Post Wave Economy 2010

  • The only answer is to start recolonising like mad.

    Can-do Canfield in a Chicken Soup Can Sharon Bakar 2005

  • An important one is that given the way the forces of imperialism are once again bent on recolonising different parts of the developing world such a united front of the Left may become not just necessary but inevitable too.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Abhay N 2006

  • Gowon, to help colonising adventurers to organise attacks similar to that against Guinea and other independent African countries, "with a view to recolonising Africa"?

    APARTHEID - A THREAT TO AFRICA'S SURVIVAL 1971

  • North to go on vigorously with the war, that the leading Abolitionists are talking unpunished treason while uninfluential men are dragged off to gaol, and that the New York press is exhausting every form of bluster in regard to the grand preparations that are being made, and the necessity of utterly annihilating the South, and recolonising it, if necessary, we have no news of interest from the Western scene of war.

    London, Saturday, September 6, 1862 1862

  • "Birdwatchers will be thrilled to see them recolonising central England and pushing into the South-east," said Dawn Balmer of the British Trust for Ornithology, publishers of the atlas.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • "Birdwatchers will be thrilled to see them recolonising central England and pushing into the South-east," said Dawn Balmer of the British Trust for Ornithology, publishers of the atlas.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • '' [Heavy metal paint] would really put a much longer timeframe on recovery because that paint would be stopping any plants and animals from recolonising. ''

    UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World 2010

  • "That would really put a much longer timeframe on recovery because that paint would be stopping any plants and animals from recolonising."

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010

  • "That would really put a much longer timeframe on recovery because that paint would be stopping any plants and animals from recolonising."

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010

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