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collide

[kuh-lahyd] / kəˈlaɪd /


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Inside his new thriller, those themes collide under the fluorescent glare of LAX.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Owono ran towards the centre circle to clear a long ball when his knee appeared to collide with De Miguel.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Wall Street is heading for a high-stakes showdown, as booming corporate earnings for technology and energy firms collide with a relentless rise in bond yields.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2026

My cars didn’t run any red lights, collide with another car or take off with my suitcase still in the trunk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The speeding neutrons would collide with other uranium atoms, causing them to fission also.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

As the rock collides with air molecules, both its surface and the surrounding gas heat up and begin to glow.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

So his injury risk might be lower if he collides with a kick returner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Investors face a test this week as a fresh round of corporate earnings collides with rising borrowing costs and growing questions about the economics of the AI boom.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

The McLaren of James Hunt is tipped into the air as it collides with the Brabham of John Watson at the start of the 1977 race at Long Beach.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

She continues her pacing and almost collides with the coffee table.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

By examining charged particles that recoil in the opposite direction from photons, researchers found a similar relationship between energy loss and how centrally the nuclei collided.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Two high-speed trains have collided in Spain just south of the capital Madrid on Wednesday morning.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The driver who collided with the riders fled but police, with the assistance of witnesses, were able to track a suspect down at his home near the scene of the collision, Montclair police said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

Those jitters collided with investors getting caught off-guard in their positioning for several more Federal Reserve rate hikes, and for higher long-dated Treasury yields.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

When two more Luftwaffe aircraft began to chase them, Aleksandr escaped into clouds while the two enemy fighter planes collided in flames.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

That borrowing is now colliding with tremendous demand from the private sector, much of it from technology companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

They give the example of amateur footballer Ben Hiscox, who died in 2015 after colliding with a clubhouse near Bristol.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

"At the LHC, we're colliding particles at extremely high energy, which corresponds to tiny distance scales," Incandela said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

A niche corner of the derivatives world is colliding with the universe of excahnge-traded funds.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

They swing a little from the impact of our fall, occasionally colliding into one another.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer


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