colonize

"Microbes are the pioneers colonizing this kind of environment and preparing the ground for the next succession of life," Wagner said.

“They were colonized people, and I’m still a colonized person,” they said.

The species has colonized new regions when transported on ships’ hulls or in ballast water that is drained in ports.

And this is the problem that we promote this utilitarian “me first” sort of attitude on the left, and we've just been colonized by the right wing ways of thinking.

We are not anywhere near morally advanced enough to begin colonizing the universe.