colonizing

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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

"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

Partly as a result of the moral quandaries, Mr. Solomon finishes his book far more ambivalent about colonizing Mars than he was at the outset.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 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