collide
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Inside his new thriller, those themes collide under the fluorescent glare of LAX.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Owono ran towards the centre circle to clear a long ball when his knee appeared to collide with De Miguel.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
When the defenders return, lives lived in parallel collide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
When two such nuclei collide with sufficient energy, the boundaries of their protons and neutrons effectively break down, releasing the quarks and gluons inside them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
An infinitesimal fraction of a second prior to the bomb’s detonation, two particles collide with such fierce velocity that they form a micro singularity—a black hole too small to see with the naked eye.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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As the rock collides with air molecules, both its surface and the surrounding gas heat up and begin to glow.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
Investors face a test this week as a fresh round of corporate earnings collides with rising borrowing costs and growing questions about the economics of the AI boom.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
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
“Well, I’m getting ice cream,” I say, moving toward the stairs, and Bieber collides with my legs in his eagerness to follow.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
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Leaked audio recordings published by Spanish media have shed light on communications between a control centre and train drivers in the moments before two trains collided outside Toledo.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Saturday when a driver heading in the opposite direction collided with several of them, according to a social media post by Montclair police.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
Within this disk, countless small particles gradually collided and stuck together, building larger objects through a process called accretion.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Those jitters collided with investors getting caught off-guard in their positioning for several more Federal Reserve rate hikes, and for higher long-dated Treasury yields.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Violent images collided with beautiful ones in her mind.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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The court heard Richardson had driven through "give way" markings at a junction in Warburton before colliding with the father-of-two, who went under the Volvo XC90.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
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
"At the LHC, we're colliding particles at extremely high energy, which corresponds to tiny distance scales," Incandela said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
A niche corner of the derivatives world is colliding with the universe of excahnge-traded funds.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
I would very much like this to be the case but I have to recognize that there are other possible explanations for the gamma ray bursts, such as colliding neutron stars.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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