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

Partly as a result of the moral quandaries, Mr. Solomon finishes his book far more ambivalent about colonizing Mars than he was at the outset.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

SpaceX is pivoting away from Elon Musk’s dream of colonizing Mars and is instead focusing on something a little closer: settling the moon.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 9, 2026

Thus Pizarro’s capture of Atahuallpa illustrates the set of proximate factors that resulted in Europeans’ colonizing the New World instead of Native Americans’ colonizing Europe.

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