colonize
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Every now and then sea lions try to colonize the docks used by boaters.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
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
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 discovery that bacteria can colonize surfaces even when their normal swimming machinery fails has important health implications.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
Why didn’t Chinese ships cross the Pacific to colonize the Americas’ west coast?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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