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

The company speaks openly about its ambitions to put humans on Mars, and has even tied a massive bonus for Musk to colonizing the red planet with one million inhabitants.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 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

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