colonizes

present tense third-person singular of colonize
as in inhabits
to supply with inhabitants believes that someday humans will be sent to colonize Mars

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  • The Town of Campbell, outside of La Crosse, also discovered widespread PFAS contamination of private wells, likely stemming from the use of firefighting foam at the La Crosse Regional Airport, which inhabits a portion of the small island in between the Black and Mississippi Rivers.
    Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The team that inhabits it is often called inevitable — immune to pressure and impossible to put away.
    Chandler Rome, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2025
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  • Another concern became the proprietary algorithm that populates what users see on the app.
    Josh Boak, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Ejecta from its innermost large, volcano-rich moon, Io, populates this inner magnetosphere with sulfur dioxide gas, where the magnetic field forces this material to co-rotate with Jupiter itself in a torus-like shape.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Colonizes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colonizes. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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