as in populated
to supply with inhabitants
believes that someday humans will be sent to colonize Mars
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Recent Examples of colonized
Denmark colonized Greenland 300 years ago and granted it the status of an autonomous territory in the 1970s, while retaining control of military and foreign policy.
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Alexander Smith, NBC news, 10 Jan. 2026
The result was over a century of catastrophe, not just for ordinary Europeans but also for the people of numerous African countries that were colonized, often brutally.
—Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
People without risk factors generally do not get infected or colonized with Candida auris infection, Roberts said.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026
This, too, is the post-World War II order — the Cold War order, in which countries colonized by the Soviet Union were excluded from the liberal aspirations asserted by the West.
—M. Gessen, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
Witness historic alignments at Angel Mounds Before Europeans colonized the Americas, Indigenous people built 12 earthen mounds throughout what is now Evansville, Indiana.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 19 Dec. 2025
Starting around 1900, coyotes began expanding their range east and have now colonized nearly all of eastern North America.
—Alex Jensen, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
The eastern half of the island of Timor was colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century.
—Angelica Ang, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
Del Toro’s character points out to DiCaprio that people like him—the indigenous, the colonized, the Zapatistas, the rebels in the hills of Cuba—have been fighting the American machine for several hundred years, which is only now being felt by those of liberal sentiment.
—Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
Alexander Smith, NBC news, 10 Jan. 2026
The result was over a century of catastrophe, not just for ordinary Europeans but also for the people of numerous African countries that were colonized, often brutally.
—Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
People without risk factors generally do not get infected or colonized with Candida auris infection, Roberts said.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026
This, too, is the post-World War II order — the Cold War order, in which countries colonized by the Soviet Union were excluded from the liberal aspirations asserted by the West.
—M. Gessen, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
Witness historic alignments at Angel Mounds Before Europeans colonized the Americas, Indigenous people built 12 earthen mounds throughout what is now Evansville, Indiana.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 19 Dec. 2025
Starting around 1900, coyotes began expanding their range east and have now colonized nearly all of eastern North America.
—Alex Jensen, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
The eastern half of the island of Timor was colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century.
—Angelica Ang, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
Del Toro’s character points out to DiCaprio that people like him—the indigenous, the colonized, the Zapatistas, the rebels in the hills of Cuba—have been fighting the American machine for several hundred years, which is only now being felt by those of liberal sentiment.
—Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for colonized
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Unlike public social media, the new feed is populated entirely by your own private memories.—
Paul Monckton,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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This year, the streets were not as populated by protesters.—
Rebecca Keegan,
NBC news,
26 Jan. 2026
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Local campaigners have also expressed concern about potential damage to a culturally and historically significant site inhabited and used by Australia’s Indigenous communities for thousands of years.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
7 Jan. 2026
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His follow-up to The Viral Underclass looks at what happens when members of minority groups achieve some kind of institutional power and what can happen when those white-supremacist structures are inhabited by the very people they were designed to oppress.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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