as in to inhabit
to supply with inhabitants
believes that someday humans will be sent to colonize Mars
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Share [Findings] Climate change was expected to drive American lobsters to seek deeper waters, beavers to colonize new parts of Canada, and wolf spiders in the high Arctic to produce a second annual brood.
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
During a wide-ranging press conference with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump laid out a sweeping plan for the U.S. to colonize Gaza and build resorts there.
—Brian Bennett, TIME, 5 Feb. 2025
So campaigns for repatriation of these objects are regarded as attempts to redress this imbalance, allowing the formerly colonized to reclaim their rightful property.
—Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
The idea was for Jewish refugees from Europe to settle and economically develop the sparsely populated, colonized territory.
—Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2025
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
During a wide-ranging press conference with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump laid out a sweeping plan for the U.S. to colonize Gaza and build resorts there.
—Brian Bennett, TIME, 5 Feb. 2025
So campaigns for repatriation of these objects are regarded as attempts to redress this imbalance, allowing the formerly colonized to reclaim their rightful property.
—Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
The idea was for Jewish refugees from Europe to settle and economically develop the sparsely populated, colonized territory.
—Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2025
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The executive would presumably fill the role previously inhabited by Adrienne Roark, a veteran local-news executive who had been assigned to oversee CBS national newsgathering as well as the operations of WCBS and WLNY in New York and WBZ and WSBK in Boston.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
26 Feb. 2025
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Right now, though, these do not look like neighborhoods most people would want to inhabit.—
Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Feb. 2025
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The Emmy-winning Max comedy announced Tuesday the addition of 13 new guest stars planned for the fourth season — including those populating the writers room on Deborah Vance’s (Jean Smart) new late-night talk show.—
Mikey O'Connell,
The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Mar. 2025
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The film follows Roz after their transport ship crashes onto an island populated only by animals, including Fink the fox (voiced by Pedro Pascal) and Pinktail the possum (voiced by Catherine O'Hara).—
Sharareh Drury,
People.com,
3 Mar. 2025
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By Meaghan Garvey February 13, 2025 Image by Chris Panicker, photo by Chris Weeks/WireImage Know that all of Nature is but a magic theater, that the great Mother is the master magician, and that this whole world is peopled by her many parts.—
Meaghan Garvey,
Pitchfork,
13 Feb. 2025
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Indeed, Gabet was moved to learn from his one of his curators that the artisans who created 17th-century tapestries meticulously tweaked weaving techniques to demarcate the various fabrics worn by those peopling the vast scenes.—
Miles Socha,
WWD,
3 Sep. 2019
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“Colonize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colonize. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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