colonizing

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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

"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

How would colonizing Mars alter us psychologically and physiologically?

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Unlike Naples or Syracuse, it was not the result of a dedicated colonizing effort by a particular parent city.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro