colonizing

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Colonizing Mars is an obsession among certain space geeks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Colonizing insects, birds, reptiles, mammals and plants returned to the area after the blast.

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2023

Colonizing missionaries brought vineyards and wine to South America in the 16th and 17th centuries and to California in the 18th century.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2022

Colonizing the red planet has always been a staple in science fiction.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2021

Colonizing themselves also everywhere in Northern Europe, and even in Italy and Greece, they have left the familiar stamp of their ideas and habits in all our modern civilization325.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman