as in to inhabit
to supply with inhabitants
believes that someday humans will be sent to colonize Mars
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Recent Examples of colonize
The original collection of short stories was published in 1950 and centered on Earth colonizing the Red Planet in a series of devastating expeditions, and its interactions with the world's psychic native inhabitants.
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2025
The idea that humans could one day populate and even colonize Mars is one no longer confined to the realm of science fiction.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
Calculating the costs of colonizing other planets remains elusive.
—James Cramer, Baltimore Sun, 20 Aug. 2025
The mine sits just north of the Duck Valley Reservation on the Sho-Pai’s homelands, an area their ancestors were forcibly removed from over a century ago when Europeans colonized the West and corralled them into the remote reservation with little resources on the Idaho-Nevada border.
—Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 19 Aug. 2025
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2025
The idea that humans could one day populate and even colonize Mars is one no longer confined to the realm of science fiction.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
Calculating the costs of colonizing other planets remains elusive.
—James Cramer, Baltimore Sun, 20 Aug. 2025
The mine sits just north of the Duck Valley Reservation on the Sho-Pai’s homelands, an area their ancestors were forcibly removed from over a century ago when Europeans colonized the West and corralled them into the remote reservation with little resources on the Idaho-Nevada border.
—Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 19 Aug. 2025
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These bears inhabit all elevations of the park and are most active during early morning and late evening hours in spring and summer.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
18 Sep. 2025
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It’s often said that, in New Orleans’ French Quarter, the dead outnumber the living, that residual energy from the past continues to inhabit the neighborhood’s 300-year-old buildings and mysterious courtyards.—
Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
18 Sep. 2025
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Most organizations still think that if the fields are populated and the formats are correct, the data must be good.—
Kevin Campbell,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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In the IFLScience report, Co-author Peter Bellwood described the results as consistent with a long-running regional mortuary tradition and suggested connections with early populations that populated Oceania.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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Diamandis’s network, known to its constituents as the Peterverse, is largely peopled by slim, graying, well-off men who finger their Oura rings like horcruxes.—
Tad Friend,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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The mountains are peopled with guides, trail keepers and fellow travelers, as well as those who have died on their treks when the weather turned.—
Sadie Stein,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2025
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“Colonize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colonize. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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