colonizing

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He even hailed Britain's role in colonizing North America -- a controversial subject given the atrocities against native people by waves of European conquerors who crossed the Atlantic.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

"So, we are now colonizing that central space, and the bacterium is essentially ridding the body of the tumor."

From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026

But much of its focus in 2026 will be on Starship, a 404-foot rocket key to Musk’s dream of colonizing Mars.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 30, 2025

For one thing, his novel is one of the few that looks at colonizing Mars as a legitimate, even praiseworthy, escape plan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

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