collide

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They whirl, bounce, and collide within their confined space like loose change shaking violently in a machine, moving so quickly and unpredictably that standard scientific tools have struggled to track them.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026

The live performance of the nominated song “I Lied to You” re-created the fantastical moment from the film in which generations of musicians collide, weaving together past, present and future.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

"We're seeing these crises escalate rapidly and increasingly collide in dangerous ways," he said, calling for "calmer heads to prevail".

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

And yet it is where Atkin's two worlds collide.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

The present generation of particle accelerators can collide particles at energies of about one hundred GeV, and machines are planned that would raise this to a few thousand GeV.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking