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collision

[kuh-lizh-uhn] / kəˈlɪʒ ən /


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Jayson Lowe, chief executive of Ascendant Financial Inc., was on another flight at LAX when he witnessed the collision.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

A thrilling playoff game versus Milwaukee turns on a collision between a possible home run and the roof.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

They plan to use the technique on additional particle collision data to search for more examples and study them in greater detail.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Those changes can be detected with these imaging techniques, allowing researchers to verify that the crystals recorded the collision itself.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

The largest population replacement of the last 13,000 years has been the one resulting from the recent collision between Old World and New World societies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Instead of searching for quark and antiquark pairs after lead ion collisions, the researchers looked for events in which one quark traveled through the plasma in nearly the opposite direction from a "Z boson."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Students are also instructed to slow down when driving near donkeys as collisions can cause injury or even death to humans and animals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Nearly 300 people are killed every year in traffic crashes in the city, with speed serving as the leading factor in the collisions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

According to official figures, 17 to 23-year-old drivers were responsible for 24% of all collisions, external in Northern Ireland in 2024, despite only accounting for 8% of license holders.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Most had probably expired in collisions with the walls of the fist-sized tank.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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