colonize
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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 that bacteria can colonize surfaces even when their normal swimming machinery fails has important health implications.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
That could be useful for SpaceX, which recently pushed back its plan to colonize Mars.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026
Adult Osedax typically live on whale bones, while their larvae travel long distances through ocean currents to colonize new whale falls, sometimes hundreds of kilometers away.
From Science Daily • Dec. 28, 2025
Australia will colonize the islands to its north and connect by some isthmian umbilicus to Asia.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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