collide
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“His ambitions will soon collide with the fiscal reality,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
A weekly conversation where music, pop culture and Latinidad collide, hosted by De Los editors Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
"Most of those don't collide with anything, most of the time," Matthew Archer, deputy director for launch and space domain awareness at the UK Space Agency told AFP on a visit to the observatory.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
But parts of the rocket are shed in space and remain there, stuck in orbit unless they eventually collide with another celestial body.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Particle physicists look at the subatomic realm with particle accelerators: they use magnetic fields or other means to get tiny particles moving very fast; when these particles collide with one another, they spit off fragments.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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
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
Nansi switches gears, opens his palm, and shoots a glowing green burst of energy that collides into Ama’s mystical shield.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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The 19-year-old NSN Cycling rider reportedly collided with a vehicle not involved in the race.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Authorities also are looking into a second unidentified object that collided with a cargo plane after the plane aborted its landing at Leipzig due to the closure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The second object collided with a cargo plane that had aborted its landing at Leipzig because of the closure, state officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
One aircraft that had to abort its scheduled landing at Leipzig-Halle airport then collided mid-air with an unknown object nearby but later landed safely elsewhere, a government spokesman said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Their bodies collided, his back slamming against the tree’s trunk to take the worst of the impact.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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If valence quarks alone carried the baryon number, explaining the excess away from the beamline would require all three valence quarks from one colliding proton to stop near the center of the detector.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
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
Meteorologists said that it was caused by cold air from the north colliding with warm air brought in by Typhoon Maysak in the south.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
We plowed into each other, colliding shoulder pads.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
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