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colonization

[kahl-uhn-iz-ay-shuhn, -ahyz-] / ˌkɑl ən ɪzˈeɪ ʃən, -aɪz- /


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By using only part of the original painting and omitting the mission, I’m reclaiming space for Black and brown spirituality while acknowledging that this land existed long before colonization.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

No bacterial colonization was detected in healthy organs, including the liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, or heart.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

The company's Starship rocket -- whose latest iteration could launch Thursday -- is explicitly designed with Mars colonization in mind.

From Barron's May 21, 2026

A good share are actively planning for Mars colonization.

From Slate May 8, 2026

Before him, such a form of colonization had been used in the fifth century by the Athenians, who planted citizen estates in troublesome areas of their Aegean empire.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

Yet the people of Vanuatu, having experienced repeated upheavals and colonizations, might have glimpsed in that very paradox an expanded sense of possibility.

From New York Times Dec. 8, 2021

Science fiction as a genre has long been obsessed with the possibility of reaching Mars, for both expeditions, such as Andy Weir’s novel The Martian, and colonizations, like in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy.

From The Verge Mar. 25, 2018

“What is clear is that the island has a complex settlement history involving multiple colonizations by different populations at different times,” Crowther says.

From Science Magazine May 30, 2016

But considering an island on the other side of the world — Britain — with its discontinuous record of human settlement over 900,000 years, I can also imagine episodic human colonizations on Flores.

From Nature Oct. 21, 2014

That is, everything about the Clovis phenomenon and its spread through the Americas corresponds to findings for other, unquestioned virgin-land colonizations in history.

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




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