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After Anthony’s dog savaged another man’s hog—hogs being precious in New Netherland—the couple was banished in 1639 to Long Island, where the two started a new life on land the Dutch wished to colonize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

John Ward, one of the wealthiest men in the world, has funded a two-year trip around Titan to determine whether Saturn’s moon would be a good place for humans to colonize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

The discovery could help explain how disease causing microbes manage to colonize medical devices, wounds, and food processing equipment.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026

The discovery that bacteria can colonize surfaces even when their normal swimming machinery fails has important health implications.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026

Worst-case scenarios no doubt colonize my mom’s head.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

The team studied how C. albicans colonizes the gut.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024

“Once it colonizes the root system and displays visible mushrooms, the fungus is well progressed within the tree,” Crooks says.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2022

The fungus colonizes the trays, resulting in a material that, through an undisclosed proprietary procedure, looks and feels like leather, according to the company.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 28, 2022

Sometimes a fraction of a population breaks away and colonizes a new habitat.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2018

What he feels on the worst days of that relentless winter—while rust colonizes the truck and rifles and radios, while German divisions retreat all around them—is a deep scorn for all the humans they pass.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The later microbes could have colonized the body while it remained frozen in the glacier or during more than 30 years of modern conservation.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

Before Europeans colonized North America, bald eagles were pretty much everywhere there was a river, lake, or stream large enough to support sizable fish.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

It accounts for more than 200,000 jobs and has colonized entire neighborhoods.

From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026

This included New Mexico, which had been part of Spain’s empire since the early 1600s, and California, which was colonized in 1769.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2026

In other words, just one group of paleo- Indians colonized the Americas, but it did so two or three times.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Those include colonizing Mars, putting more than 1 million satellites in orbit and putting mass drivers on the moon.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

Because wolves are not capable of naturally colonizing such an island across open sea, researchers believe humans must have brought the animals there, likely by boat.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

It will need that money and multiples more to achieve Mr. Musk’s ambition of colonizing Mars and mining asteroids.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

At this point in his public arc, his affinity for the material is more like a colonizing claim.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Then colonizing species like lupine appeared, preparing the ground for the return of the grasses.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann