colonizing

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He even hailed Britain's role in colonizing North America -- a controversial subject given the atrocities against native people by waves of European conquerors who crossed the Atlantic.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 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

Musk has major aspirations for SpaceX, from developing a 1 million-satellite constellation around the Earth to colonizing the moon and Mars.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 18, 2026

When those long-awaited aliens finally get around to colonizing Earth, they may be somewhat baffled by the Dolly Parton phenomenon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 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