colonizing

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

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

Musk, who founded SpaceX in 2002 with the goal of colonizing Mars, has a firm grip on the leadership and ownership.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with the lofty goal of ferrying humans to Mars and colonizing Earth's neighboring planet.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Old Town, my slightly disheveled neighborhood of churches, Mexican-adjacent tchotchke shops, is where missionaries established their first mission, colonizing the town that belonged to the country south of the US border.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

Europeans colonized Australia, rather than Native Australians colonizing Europe, for the same reasons that we have just seen in the case of New Guinea.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond