colonizing

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"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

Whatever the timing and pricing turn out to be, the IPO of an Elon Musk company with aspirations of colonizing Mars will certainly be something to follow this year.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

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

Tessa sees it as a mission, one of dozens that involve the company colonizing planets and stripping their resources, justifying that plunder as necessary to benefit mankind.

From Salon • Nov. 12, 2025

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