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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

When two such nuclei collide with sufficient energy, the boundaries of their protons and neutrons effectively break down, releasing the quarks and gluons inside them.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

The plan comes as Anthropic’s plans for a major initial public offering collide with public discontent around AI.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

An infinitesimal fraction of a second prior to the bomb’s detonation, two particles collide with such fierce velocity that they form a micro singularity—a black hole too small to see with the naked eye.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

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

Either way, production collides with weak domestic demand—held back by low confidence, near-zero inflation and the housing bust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

“Well, I’m getting ice cream,” I say, moving toward the stairs, and Bieber collides with my legs in his eagerness to follow.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli

During the crash, his brown Maserati convertible collided with an unoccupied Tesla, according to the criminal complaint filed in July.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

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

Leaked audio recordings published by Spanish media have shed light on communications between a control centre and train drivers in the moments before two trains collided outside Toledo.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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

That would be a disaster if a train collided with Cleopatra’s Needle.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

The U.S. push to devote more military resources to the Arctic is colliding with competing demands elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

“The AI buildout is colliding with a grid that cannot deliver power fast enough,” Morgan Stanley’s Andrew Percoco wrote in a separate report on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 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

The class went crazy with chairs scraping and kids running, colliding, and laughing.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia


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