colonize
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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
These "whale fall" sites create temporary but rich ecosystems where microbes quickly colonize and flourish.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 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
Austronesians thus had thousands of years in which to colonize New Guinea’s interior and its southern coast from nearby bases, but they never did so.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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