colonizing
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This frontier, it turns out, is both geographic — as embodied by the ever-expanding borders of a nation intent on colonizing and conquering much of the continent — and psychological.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Around 12 million years ago, the development of the circumpolar current helped other penguin groups spread through the sub-Antarctic, eventually colonizing remote islands and archipelagoes and reaching as far north as Africa and South America.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Those include colonizing Mars, putting more than 1 million satellites in orbit and putting mass drivers on the moon.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
It will need that money and multiples more to achieve Mr. Musk’s ambition of colonizing Mars and mining asteroids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The commands of the monarchs and merchants who organized colonizing fleets were conveyed in writing.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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