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Likewise, the U.S. early in World War II stopped Japan from seaborne oil imports—targeting the very vulnerability Tokyo had sought to offset by trying to colonize its resource-rich Asian neighbors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

John Ward, one of the wealthiest men in the world, has funded a two-year trip around Titan to determine whether Saturn’s moon would be a good place for humans to colonize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

These "whale fall" sites create temporary but rich ecosystems where microbes quickly colonize and flourish.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2026

The discovery could help explain how disease causing microbes manage to colonize medical devices, wounds, and food processing equipment.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026

The Austronesians who went on to colonize Polynesia became isolated from East Asian metallurgy and writing and hence remained without writing or metal.

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

"It allows us to witness ecological processes that would otherwise remain invisible -- how life colonizes, evolves, and adapts. Such work is essential for understanding the future of ecosystems in a rapidly changing world."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2025

Despite its gruesome appearance, this mushroom is beneficial for the coniferous trees it colonizes.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2023

“Once it colonizes the root system and displays visible mushrooms, the fungus is well progressed within the tree,” Crooks says.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2022

The fungus colonizes the trays, resulting in a material that, through an undisclosed proprietary procedure, looks and feels like leather, according to the company.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 28, 2022

Etienne’s huge study colonizes the entire fifth floor, alternately deeply quiet or else full of voices or music or static.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

In the mouse experiment, none of the human Roseburia species permanently colonized the animals' guts.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

Before Europeans colonized North America, bald eagles were pretty much everywhere there was a river, lake, or stream large enough to support sizable fish.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

It accounts for more than 200,000 jobs and has colonized entire neighborhoods.

From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026

The buildings that housed a prideful labor force are vandalized, colonized by squatters or boarded up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026

Shona was the country's national language, but most people spoke English as a result of being colonized.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda

SpaceX has big dreams, including colonizing Mars, operating orbital data centers and putting a mass driver on the moon that would make it easier to put satellites in orbit.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

Because wolves are not capable of naturally colonizing such an island across open sea, researchers believe humans must have brought the animals there, likely by boat.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

The prospectus that it filed as SpaceX prepares for a massive initial public offering makes it clear that colonizing Mars and cracking AI is going to depend on selling Wi-Fi.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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