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
Powerful winds break up the ice cover, causing individual floes to move, drift, and collide with one another.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 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 fog’s so thick, I have to walk with my arms out straight so I don’t collide into any mailboxes or telephone poles or trees.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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A maximalist salon collides with a backstage circus dressing room in the Silver Lake apartment of stylist Wendi Weger, whose delightful fusion of art and fashion is behind the Curatorial Dept. in Atwater Village.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Now cruise stocks have hit their first serious bout of turbulence as growing industry capacity collides with the effects of the Iran war and some unfortunate weather, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
What will happen when a SpaceX rocket collides with the Moon?
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
On another level, though, Pitchford is about what happens when that principle collides with the punishing procedural architecture of modern postconviction review.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2026
Equally, if a real photon collides with an atom, it may move an electron from an orbit nearer the nucleus to one farther away.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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The Passat and the car PC Clough and PC Blades were in collided around 17 seconds later.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
In October 2025, a Metrolink train collided with another train near Union Station, leaving multiple people injured.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
According to this idea, a Mars-sized body called Theia collided with the early Earth.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Melyngar began to swim, her strong legs keeping her afloat and in motion, but the current swung her around; she collided with Taran and forced him under the water.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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Those colliding factors have pushed up the cost of moving crude and making fuel across the supply chain, raising the price to operate everything from cars and trucks to commercial jets and farming equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
They give the example of amateur footballer Ben Hiscox, who died in 2015 after colliding with a clubhouse near Bristol.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 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
"The measurements were performed using data collected during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider, where fast-moving lead nuclei pass close to one another without directly colliding," Tapia Takaki said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
The disrupted lanterns careened into an avalanche of chaos, until every lamp was swinging and colliding and clanging.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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