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collide

[kuh-lahyd] / kəˈlaɪd /


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Inside his new thriller, those themes collide under the fluorescent glare of LAX.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

The plan comes as Anthropic’s plans for a major initial public offering collide with public discontent around AI.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

When these charged particles collide with oxygen and nitrogen, photons of coloured light are emitted - this is the aurora.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

My cars didn’t run any red lights, collide with another car or take off with my suitcase still in the trunk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

They’re carrying a large crate, and when we collide, it nearly lands on me.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

What will happen when a SpaceX rocket collides with the Moon?

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Yet drug development is also where AI collides with the stubborn reality of human biology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

In the winter the frigid air that flows north from the Pole creates one cyclone after another and collides with warmer air from the tropics, spinning off gales, hurricanes, and blizzards.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

The scientists could also examine how the outcome changed depending on whether the oxygen nuclei collided directly or merely grazed one another.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

A wind turbine installation vessel called the Wind Orca collided with a container ship berthed at the Port of Tyne.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 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

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

“OUCH!” said Harry as what appeared to be a small, gray, feathery tennis ball collided with the side of his head.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

Even more puzzling, astronomers have not reliably identified a pair of supermassive black holes orbiting extremely close together, despite abundant evidence of colliding galaxies.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

That borrowing is now colliding with tremendous demand from the private sector, much of it from technology companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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

A niche corner of the derivatives world is colliding with the universe of excahnge-traded funds.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Try as he might, he couldn’t remember any sound of cars colliding.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel


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