postcolonial
adjective
post·co·lo·nial
ˌpōst-kə-ˈlō-nē-əl 
-nyəl
: of, relating to, or being a time after colonialism
postcolonial America
Carter was the first American president to take seriously the entire postcolonial era that has remade the globe since World War II.—
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During the 1930s and 40s, amid ongoing political turbulence, artists began a crucial negotiation between an emerging postcolonial national consciousness and a burgeoning modernism.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Denmark’s postcolonial neglect of Greenland goes back much further than Trump or Frederiksen, of course.
—Morten Høi Jensen, The Dial, 19 June 2025
In the postcolonial period, that access became more complicated: By 1978, India banned the export of rhesus macaques for research after public concern over their use in military and radiation experiments.
—Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 18 June 2025
Mining boosters argued that the deep sea could provide a crucial alternative to terrestrial mineral markets controlled by potentially unfriendly postcolonial governments.
—Time, 17 June 2025
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Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Denmark’s postcolonial neglect of Greenland goes back much further than Trump or Frederiksen, of course.
—Morten Høi Jensen, The Dial, 19 June 2025
In the postcolonial period, that access became more complicated: By 1978, India banned the export of rhesus macaques for research after public concern over their use in military and radiation experiments.
—Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 18 June 2025
Mining boosters argued that the deep sea could provide a crucial alternative to terrestrial mineral markets controlled by potentially unfriendly postcolonial governments.
—Time, 17 June 2025
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“Postcolonial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postcolonial. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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