How to Use decolonization in a Sentence

decolonization

noun

• But world wars and decolonization saw the rise of many new and often quite small nation-states.
  — Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
• Nostalgia doesn’t square very well with the process of decolonization, but there’s no dodging loss.
  — Curbed, 17 Feb. 2022
• Négritude and most decolonization movements were born in the West.
  — Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
• 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
• And that’s decolonization to me because at the end of the day, everyone is colonized.
  — Amanda Alcantara, refinery29.com, 7 June 2023
• All the same, his culinary approach to food decolonization is an intermarriage of foods.
  — James Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Aug. 2021
• And also the decolonization of travel for me includes talking about African cities.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2020
• In the coming election, the island’s voters will have a chance to express their desire for decolonization.
  — Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus / Made By History, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
• That Ian Fleming should have thought about decolonization at all was surprising.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• How does a shadow state like Haiti achieve decolonization from neocolonialism?
  — Marlene L. Daut, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
• This figure has changed little since the 1980s, the point at which decolonization was mostly finished.
  — WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
• Addis was the city that African leaders descended upon to discuss things like decolonization.
  — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Four years later, the process of decolonization in East, West, and Central Africa was largely complete.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
• The reason, says commission head and deputy mayor Andriy Moskalenko, is decolonization.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2022
• Indigenization of time, for me, means filling the void that decolonization creates with ways of being that honor my ancestors.
  — Larissa Crawford, refinery29.com, 8 July 2021
• 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
• By the mid-20th century, an era of decolonization had taken hold, as colonies in Africa and around the world agitated for independence.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 June 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Amid the economic and social changes caused by decolonization, Britain struggled to redefine its place as world power without the credentials of a global empire.
  — Time, 16 Oct. 2025
• In the same era of fitful decolonization that began in the late Forties, the power of the old masters of the universe grew at a historically unprecedented rate.
  — Pankaj Mishra, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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