collide

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The sun’s mass makes it a gravity-powered fusion reactor, but on Earth, scientists need other ways to create plasma—a superheated, electrically charged gas—and confine it to force atoms to collide.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Inside the chamber, ions collide with gas molecules, slow down, and move randomly.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

“One Piece” unfolds in an alternate past where futuristic technology, classic pirate imagery and fantasy collide.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

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

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

But who was to say that at that moment we wouldn’t collide against the underside of the barrier, and thus be horribly squashed between two surfaces of ice?

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr