"self-colonize" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "2010, Susan G. Figge, Jenifer K. Ward, Reworking the German Past",
          "text": "Nazi-era Schlager are thus reappropriated as part of the FRG after 1989 and help to self-colonize the previously alien(ated) nation of Germany for the Germans.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Anne Griffiths, The Power Of Law In A Transnational World: Anthropological Enquiries",
          "text": "The legacy of colonialism continues and expands to include those who self-colonize thereby reaffirming Weber's caricatures and uncritical idealisations of Westernisation and law or even to idealisations of Islamic law.",
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          "ref": "2016, Nels Pearson, Marc Singer, Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World, page 85",
          "text": "The significant distinction from Glissant in chamoiseau's novel, however, comes from the fact that the béké masters have been replaced with black policemen; the French power structure allows the various strata of Martinique to self-colonize through their language use.",
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          "ref": "2017 -, Stephen B. Neufeld, The Blood Contingent: The Military and the Making of Modern Mexico",
          "text": "Steeped in a military lore from college and from international exposure, the subaltern promised success for shaping an army of modern soldiers from mere peasants and for advancing the schedule to self-colonize the republic's dark corners.",
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        "To regain power (by indigenous people) after having been under colonial rule by another country, typically with the adoption of some of the culture of the former colonizers."
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          "ref": "2001, Bolsa Chica Lowlands Restoration Project: Environmental Impact Statement",
          "text": "Cordgrass will be planted, not left to self-colonize.",
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          "ref": "2008, Sally Stenhouse Kneidel, Sadie Kneidel, Going Green: A Wise Consumer's Guide to a Shrinking Planet, page 95",
          "text": "If not, expect an abundance of weeds, by which we mean invasive and nonnative species that self- colonize.",
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          "ref": "2016, Christophe Girot, Dora Imhof, Thinking the Contemporary Landscape, page 130",
          "text": "Similarly, at Fresh Kills, a closed landfill with barely any living soil or biodiversity, the task of the layers is to build a new thick surface over time—an ecologically engineered surface that will self-colonize and grow and adapt.",
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          "ref": "2010, Susan G. Figge, Jenifer K. Ward, Reworking the German Past",
          "text": "Nazi-era Schlager are thus reappropriated as part of the FRG after 1989 and help to self-colonize the previously alien(ated) nation of Germany for the Germans.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2013, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Anne Griffiths, The Power Of Law In A Transnational World: Anthropological Enquiries",
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          "ref": "2016, Nels Pearson, Marc Singer, Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World, page 85",
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          "ref": "2017 -, Stephen B. Neufeld, The Blood Contingent: The Military and the Making of Modern Mexico",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Sally Stenhouse Kneidel, Sadie Kneidel, Going Green: A Wise Consumer's Guide to a Shrinking Planet, page 95",
          "text": "If not, expect an abundance of weeds, by which we mean invasive and nonnative species that self- colonize.",
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          "ref": "2016, Christophe Girot, Dora Imhof, Thinking the Contemporary Landscape, page 130",
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