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After Anthony’s dog savaged another man’s hog—hogs being precious in New Netherland—the couple was banished in 1639 to Long Island, where the two started a new life on land the Dutch wished to colonize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 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

The study found that diets rich in casein, the primary protein found in milk and cheese, along with wheat gluten, greatly reduced how much cholera bacteria could colonize the gut.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 7, 2026

The discovery that bacteria can colonize surfaces even when their normal swimming machinery fails has important health implications.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026

Why did Austronesian people, stemming ultimately from mainland China, colonize Java and the rest of Indonesia and replace the original inhabitants there, instead of Indonesians colonizing China and replacing the Chinese?

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

One of the chief bacterial culprits behind periodontitis is Porphyromonas gingivalis, which colonizes biofilms on tooth surfaces and proliferates in deep periodontal pockets.

From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024

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

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2023

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

Sometimes a fraction of a population breaks away and colonizes a new habitat.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2018

What he feels on the worst days of that relentless winter—while rust colonizes the truck and rifles and radios, while German divisions retreat all around them—is a deep scorn for all the humans they pass.

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

In both greenhouse studies and field trials, the bacteria successfully colonized the roots and substantially improved plant growth under salty conditions.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 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

First colonized by Scandinavian missionaries in 1721, and ruled by Denmark alone from 1814, Greenland was isolated from the world during the age of empire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026

Easter Island and the Chathams are small and so remote from other islands that, once they were initially colonized, the societies thus founded developed in total isolation from the rest of the world.

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

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

Baron’s fandom is such that in conversations with clients and others, he often invokes “we” when discussing SpaceX’s ambitions, which include colonizing Mars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

Gold fever drove monarchs and others with wealth to fund colonizing ventures to find the metal.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz