- present participle of colonize.
colonizing
Example Sentences
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It looked like the start of a familiar story: China’s EV makers quietly colonizing another corner of the Western car market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
SpaceX has big dreams, including colonizing Mars, operating orbital data centers and putting a mass driver on the moon that would make it easier to put satellites in orbit.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
Because wolves are not capable of naturally colonizing such an island across open sea, researchers believe humans must have brought the animals there, likely by boat.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
At this point in his public arc, his affinity for the material is more like a colonizing claim.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 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
