colonization
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Geronimo’s people, who refused to submit to colonization, fought these wars on two fronts: against the U.S. in the north and Mexico in the south.
Rising temperatures and shifting climate zones would force species out of some areas while opening new habitats elsewhere, triggering faster local extinctions and rapid colonization.
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Both significantly accelerated tumor growth and increased metastatic colonization in independent cell line models.
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In 1823, President James Monroe declared the Western Hemisphere off limits to European colonization.
Three centuries of Danish colonization has spurred a range of resentments between the island’s Inuit residents and faraway Copenhagen.
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