colonizing

Example Sentences

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And ultimately, colonizing Mars is still the SpaceX dream.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Musk has publicly touted out-of-this-world objectives for the company, from deploying a huge number of AI satellites in the future to eventually colonizing Mars.

From The Wall Street Journal • 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

"So, we are now colonizing that central space, and the bacterium is essentially ridding the body of the tumor."

From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026

If my organelles are really symbiotic bacteria, colonizing me, what’s to prevent them from catching a virus, or if they have such a thing as lysogeny, from conveying a phage to other organelles?

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas