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colonize

verb as in settle

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The psychological novel gained prominence as the 19th-century world became mapped and colonized, the mind offering a new realm for discovery.

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But TikTok is also the closest thing we have to a digital town square that isn’t yet colonized by billionaires with political agendas.

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Instead of the colonizing of other territories and peoples, hegemons act to dominate other countries economically and militarily – and perhaps ideologically and politically, as well.

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I was a middle-class kid from New Jersey, but like a poultice, this ancient, colonized country drew out an answering difference from my bones.

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Its colonizing project was carried out just as other colonized peoples were throwing off their rulers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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