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 complaint paints a picture of a company using its EHR and revenue cycle management hegemony as a springboard to colonize other sectors of the healthcare technology landscape.
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Seth Joseph, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Yet before the eighteenth century, Europeans—including the English people who colonized North America—did not conceptualize hair as an integral body part.
—Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
All of this got turned on its head beginning in the 1970s, as the art world became sensitized to the deep inequities between men and women, white and nonwhite, colonizer and colonized.
—Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
This all spells bad news as the climate shifts open up new areas for Aspergillus to colonize.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 24 May 2025
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Seth Joseph, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Yet before the eighteenth century, Europeans—including the English people who colonized North America—did not conceptualize hair as an integral body part.
—Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
All of this got turned on its head beginning in the 1970s, as the art world became sensitized to the deep inequities between men and women, white and nonwhite, colonizer and colonized.
—Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
This all spells bad news as the climate shifts open up new areas for Aspergillus to colonize.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 24 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colonize
Verb
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In other words, the billionaire both designs and inhabits delusions of grandeur.—
Brittany Allen
July 10,
Literary Hub,
10 July 2025
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Because what really builds character is the expanded perspective that comes from inhabiting real (or real-enough) experiences that differ greatly from our own.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
10 July 2025
Verb
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The world is populated with multiple variants of each Marvel Comics hero and villain.—
Michileen Martin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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Argentina, at the bottom of South America, is a country way off course, and populated mostly with the children of Europeans for whom traveling is like breathing, who miss the world, the centers of culture, so very far way.—
Suzanne Jill Levine
June 30,
Literary Hub,
30 June 2025
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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 18 Jul. 2025.
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