colonizing

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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

At this point in his public arc, his affinity for the material is more like a colonizing claim.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

And ultimately, colonizing Mars is still the SpaceX dream.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

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

Within a few centuries, in one of the swiftest colonizing advances of recent prehistory, Bantu farmers had swept all the way to Natal, on the east coast of what is now South Africa.

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