colonizing

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SpaceX has already sparked a nascent space economy, and Musk has a long-term vision of a multiplanetary future that includes AI data centers in orbit and colonizing Mars.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026

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

From Slate • Jun. 11, 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

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

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