colonize

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He was impressed by mosses' ability to colonize the harshest environments on Earth.

From Science Daily

"For decades, scientists have been trying to develop cereal crops that produce active root nodules, or trying to colonize cereals with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, without much success. We used a different approach," Blumwald said.

From Science Daily

The large underwater platforms are rapidly colonized by smaller marine life which in turn attracts larger predators to the area.

From Seattle Times

The Vatican said that the text, issued eight months after the pope’s “penitential journey to Canada,” reaffirmed the church’s “rejection of the colonizing mentality.”

From New York Times

When the Spanish colonized Colombia in the 16th century, they forbade the traditional religions observed by Indigenous and Afro-descendant populations, making Roman Catholicism as the law of the land.

From New York Times