as in inhabiting
to supply with inhabitants
believes that someday humans will be sent to colonize Mars
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Recent Examples of colonizing
Only about a third of clinical cases come from blood; the rest are found in urine, wounds and the respiratory tract, where the fungus is often colonizing rather than invading.
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John Drake,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
There’s plenty of room for skepticism about the prospect of humans colonizing Mars.
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John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
Neither the French nor the Spanish ever invested significantly in colonizing the land west of the upper Mississippi, and Americans were champing at the bit.
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Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
31 May 2026
Since the founding of SpaceX in 2002, Musk has been talking about colonizing Mars—and, more recently, the moon.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
30 Apr. 2026
With proper care and maintenance, most mosses will double in size in about a year, filling in bare soil and colonizing your garden space all on their own.
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Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Apr. 2026
Imagine crossing thousands of miles of open ocean — no rest stops, no landmarks — and somehow colonizing a remote archipelago to start entirely new lineages.
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Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
6 Apr. 2026
This lines up with when colonizing Greeks were believed to have introduced viticulture — cultivating grapevines — to France, after founding the city of Marseille.
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CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
The mythologies of the medical ass could blossom, like the oral folklore of a tribe allowed to retain its own myths without the colonizing interference of invaders.
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Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
John Drake,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
There’s plenty of room for skepticism about the prospect of humans colonizing Mars.
—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
Neither the French nor the Spanish ever invested significantly in colonizing the land west of the upper Mississippi, and Americans were champing at the bit.
—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
31 May 2026
Since the founding of SpaceX in 2002, Musk has been talking about colonizing Mars—and, more recently, the moon.
—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
30 Apr. 2026
With proper care and maintenance, most mosses will double in size in about a year, filling in bare soil and colonizing your garden space all on their own.
—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Apr. 2026
Imagine crossing thousands of miles of open ocean — no rest stops, no landmarks — and somehow colonizing a remote archipelago to start entirely new lineages.
—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
6 Apr. 2026
This lines up with when colonizing Greeks were believed to have introduced viticulture — cultivating grapevines — to France, after founding the city of Marseille.
—
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
The mythologies of the medical ass could blossom, like the oral folklore of a tribe allowed to retain its own myths without the colonizing interference of invaders.
—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for colonizing
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But [Reeves] was inhabiting the same environment of Fort Smith and Fort Worth that the Duttons did in 1883.
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Microraptor’s cousins lived on the ground, but inhabiting the canopy and gliding from tree to tree might have been a safer way to stay out of reach of larger meat-eating dinosaurs.
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The discovery offers the first evidence that star-forming galaxies like Shadow Blaster play a significant role in populating the universe with mysterious high-energy cosmic ghost-neutrinos.
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By populating the green with so many conflicting personalities, director and cowriter Harold Ramis makes golf seem both monumentally silly and, despite its staid trappings, unexpectedly freewheeling.
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