colonize
colonizing
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present participleof colonize.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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This frontier, it turns out, is both geographic — as embodied by the ever-expanding borders of a nation intent on colonizing and conquering much of the continent — and psychological.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Beneath the gumline, adding those signals encouraged later colonizing species associated with disease.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO—An industry that loves its buzzwords has a new favorite and, like a rogue artificial-intelligence model, it has broken out of its sandbox and is colonizing new domains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Those include colonizing Mars, putting more than 1 million satellites in orbit and putting mass drivers on the moon.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
If my organelles are really symbiotic bacteria, colonizing me, what’s to prevent them from catching a virus, or if they have such a thing as lysogeny, from conveying a phage to other organelles?
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
