colonizing

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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

"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

Whatever the timing and pricing turn out to be, the IPO of an Elon Musk company with aspirations of colonizing Mars will certainly be something to follow this year.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

When those long-awaited aliens finally get around to colonizing Earth, they may be somewhat baffled by the Dolly Parton phenomenon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Europeans colonized Australia, rather than Native Australians colonizing Europe, for the same reasons that we have just seen in the case of New Guinea.

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