collide
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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
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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
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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
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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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