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collide

[kuh-lahyd] / kəˈlaɪd /


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These trends collide with longstanding financial advice for 20- and 30-somethings: Sock away funds for a down payment and buy a house, both as a place to live and as your main source of wealth.

From MarketWatch Sep. 16, 2026

When those two instincts collide, it’s bound to be complex and conflicting, and Greengrass delivers that with a boots-on-the-ground style.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

The climate’s messy reality can collide with neat story lines about how the coming months will play out.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Instead of gently probing nuclei, researchers collide them at the highest energies available and reconstruct their shapes from the patterns left behind.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

It will take about three hundred million years for them to collide.

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

What will happen when a SpaceX rocket collides with the Moon?

From BBC Aug. 5, 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

When a large meteor collides with Earth, it produces intense heat that melts surrounding rock.

From Science Daily Apr. 3, 2026

That concern deserves consideration—until it collides with the reality of how licensed treatment actually functions.

From Slate Mar. 11, 2026

The force-carrying particle then collides with another matter particle and is absorbed.

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

After an Army helicopter and passenger jet collided last year over Washington, killing dozens, air-traffic controllers have directed pilots to make more space for commercial airlines heading toward airports like LaGuardia.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

According to this idea, a Mars-sized body called Theia collided with the early Earth.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

A Los Angeles Fire Department ambulance that was taking a patient in serious condition to a hospital collided with another vehicle on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

What we do know is that on Saturday 22 August, a Volkswagen Passat that had been pursued by police travelled the wrong way along the A66 and collided head-on with a police vehicle.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

But then they rounded a corner and nearly collided with Kaltain Rompier.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

A Turkish cargo ship sank in the Marmara Sea near Istanbul after colliding with a second vessel, with rescuers searching for its 10 crew members, Turkish officials said Wednesday.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

Using a sensitive detector in an an underground laboratory in the US, the researchers saw an atom and mystery particle colliding.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

The proposed mechanism depends on what happens when protons inside colliding nuclei reach enormous energies.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

I feel like I can no longer keep up with them but they keep coming and everything is colliding, until I cannot take it anymore.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman




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