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
Musk also wants SpaceX to use Starship to colonize Mars.
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Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 28 May 2025
Once barred owls start colonizing old-growth forests, rare spotted owls no longer have a home.
—Mitch Friedman, Denver Post, 10 June 2025
For more than 20 years, Musk has been fixated on colonizing Mars.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
The measures would have rewritten principles in the country’s founding document, a treaty between Māori tribal leaders and representatives of the British Crown signed at the time New Zealand was colonized.
—Charlotte Graham-McLay, Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2025
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Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 28 May 2025
Once barred owls start colonizing old-growth forests, rare spotted owls no longer have a home.
—Mitch Friedman, Denver Post, 10 June 2025
For more than 20 years, Musk has been fixated on colonizing Mars.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
The measures would have rewritten principles in the country’s founding document, a treaty between Māori tribal leaders and representatives of the British Crown signed at the time New Zealand was colonized.
—Charlotte Graham-McLay, Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colonize
Verb
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Some, like the gray reef shark and blacktip shark, inhabit coral reefs.—
Irit Skulnik,
Baltimore Sun,
22 July 2025
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Wells’s great mind inhabited a small set of rooms in the six-story Tuckerman Building on Washington Square.—
Henry Wiencek
July 22,
Literary Hub,
22 July 2025
Verb
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The channel currently is populated by reruns of McGraw’s various shows.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
14 July 2025
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Behind a removable panel on the bottom of the enclosure is a memory slot populated with an 8GB DDR5 module.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
13 July 2025
Verb
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Sure, your team is still peopled with the same flawed human beings, still maddeningly inconsistent and impossible to predict.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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Louis is the kind of polarizing character who people either really loved or loved to hate.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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“Colonize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colonize. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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