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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
terraform .
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Examples
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People also make money, someone made US$150,000 from land terraforms and zones real estate.
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Terrorform sees Kryten and Rimmer crash on a 'psi-moon' which terraforms itself based on the psychology of the people inhabiting it.
Red Dwarf V Adam Whitehead 2009
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The Alliance terraforms these planets - are we to assume that they just leave them as is, sending colonists to just fend for themselves with whatever technology they can carry?
Well, Maybe You Can Take That Part of the Sky (Updated, Now With Quote) Abigail Nussbaum 2006
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The other story is about a construction worker who remotely terraforms Mars.
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #20 edited by Gardner Dozois 2004
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At some point down the road when the builders at B no longer have the intellectual capacity to keep track of what's going on, the nanotech goes "grey goo" using secret codes hidden in the complex plans, terraforms planet B, and builds replicas of the aliens from A.
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But the humanity that terraforms Mars will have shown that humans are more than just animals, that we are in fact creatures who carry a unique spark that is worthy of respect.
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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But the humanity that terraforms Mars will have shown that humans are more than just animals, that we are in fact creatures who carry a unique spark that is worthy of respect.
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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Uncle Hafiz can pretty things up when he terraforms. "
Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001
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Uncle Hafiz can pretty things up when he terraforms. "
Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001
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No one terraforms a planet if they’re planning to play life safely.
Star Trek: A Rock and a Hard Place Peter David 1990
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