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By the end of the 16th century, travel accounts by English explorers inspired efforts to colonize the Carolina coast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Their findings suggest that insects did not become fully terrestrial immediately after beginning to colonize land.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

One of the most striking findings was that E. americana accumulated almost exclusively inside tumors and did not colonize healthy organs.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 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 second Eurasian attempt to colonize the Americas succeeded because it involved a source, target, latitude, and time that allowed Europe’s potential advantages to be exerted effectively.

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

Abby Lloyd’s show “Goodbye Dolly” consists of precisely one work: a huge, 12 foot-tall rag doll that colonizes an entire end of the gallery, an 11th-floor prow-shaped apartment in Greenwich Village.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2021

It colonizes their bodies, spreads to their tissue and muscles and blood and cells.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

These organisms sometimes colonized the surfaces of bones, leaving recognizable signatures behind.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 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

Europeans colonized Australia, rather than Native Australians colonizing Europe, for the same reasons that we have just seen in the case of New Guinea.

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

This frontier, it turns out, is both geographic — as embodied by the ever-expanding borders of a nation intent on colonizing and conquering much of the continent — and psychological.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO—An industry that loves its buzzwords has a new favorite and, like a rogue artificial-intelligence model, it has broken out of its sandbox and is colonizing new domains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

Then colonizing species like lupine appeared, preparing the ground for the return of the grasses.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann