collide
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The 2015 “Secret Wars” story featured some plotting by Doctor Doom and saw multiverses collide, be destroyed and merge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
“As student loan payments collide with other financial obligations, borrowers are taking a harder look at the true return on their educational investment.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Inside that chamber, the two incoming jets collide.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
These accounts collide with the present era’s eerie uncertainty at every turn, making for an altogether riveting, cyclical listening experience that tells her life’s story without smoothing its contradictions.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
But when two galaxies collide, the stars pass effortlessly by one another, like bullets through a swarm of bees, because a galaxy is made mostly of nothing and the spaces between the stars are vast.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
Some waits are 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
That concern deserves consideration—until it collides with the reality of how licensed treatment actually functions.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2026
The good collides with the bad at such an intense pace that the resulting impact leaves the film comatose.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2026
She continues her pacing and almost collides with the coffee table.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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Northumbria Police said it was called to South Shields Port of Tyne at 13:00 BST after "it was reported that, for reasons yet to be established, a ship had collided with a crane".
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
"Our cosmic forensics team used collisional and dynamical models to link these to the formation of the Eulalia asteroid family, when a primitive carbonaceous chondrite-like object collided with another object," Bottke said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
The almost parabolic moves in parts of EM equities have been driven by earnings, as strong demand has collided with shortages and supply has struggled to catch up, he said in an interview.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
Oliver Tree Nickell, known for viral songs “Life Goes On” and “Miss You,” died June 14 when two helicopters collided in Brazil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
She thrashed so much we almost collided with a floating mine.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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Now two years in, his vision—called the Network School—is colliding with the real world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
It is a positioning problem colliding with a macro shock.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Video showed Quansah’s studs colliding with Gallardo’s calf and the referee issued Quansah a red card that delighted the crowd as England’s lineup was reduced to 10 men.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Just days before the JetBlue incident, a United Airlines pilot reported nearly colliding with a drone while approaching Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
She jumped backward, away from me, colliding with a just-finished swim-lesson kid still wearing his goggles.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
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