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collide

[kuh-lahyd] / kəˈlaɪd /


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Dillon Amaya, an oceanographer at North Carolina State University, said the elevated sea levels could collide with other natural phenomena to create problems for coastal communities.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

And with so much hinging on the AI put, any loss of confidence could quickly collide with an uncertain macroeconomic backdrop, helping magnify losses across markets.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

The Higgs bosons themselves are produced when protons traveling at 99.99% the speed of light collide at energies reaching thirteen trillion electron volts.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 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

Smith really was an idiot, thought Harry, hadn’t he noticed them collide?

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

At 1-1, Roberto Carlos' seemingly harmless cross was lofted high into the Hampden Park sky, destined to drop where D and penalty box chalk collides.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2026

Some waits were still long on Sunday as a busy spring-break season collides with TSA workers waiting for back pay from the shutdown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

In an era when pressure is always mounting and global chaos consistently collides with personal crises, being an active participant in our own lives feels utterly exhausting.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026

When a small, icy object collides with a planet or a moon, it may not produce a very major scar.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Portland’s rental market stalled out in recent years as an oversupply of new housing collided with an economic slump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The authorities said the Cirrus SR22T took off from Sion airport in the Rhône Valley and, for unknown reasons, collided with a mountain slope about 10 minutes later.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 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

But the white man was running up the steps two at a time, without looking, and they collided with such force that Doctor Copeland was left sick and breathless.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Not for the first time parading, policing and power-sharing are colliding and finding the route out of this row isn't yet obvious.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Unlike Earth, the Moon has virtually no atmospheric layer, so space debris does not slow down or burn up before colliding with the surface.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

So we potentially have three trends colliding at once: Aging, plus GLP-1 weight loss, plus a growing willingness to spend on aesthetics.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

Researchers successfully created it by colliding oxygen-16 and neon-20 nuclei.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

They could not dress more than twenty ships abreast, lest they risk tangling their oars and colliding with each other.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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