encroach

This will give low pressure an opportunity to encroach and bring the chance of much-needed rain.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

People have been evacuated from nursing homes, campsites, public buildings and private homes as the flames encroach on urban areas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Books occupy a unique place within physical media — one of the last forms that does not track, monitor, or encroach on the humans who read them.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

She initially welcomed the project, before realising the airport would encroach on her land.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

Ivy held prior place in this lost garden, the long strands crept across the lawns, and soon would encroach upon the house itself.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

In fact across the region mitumba traders and local clothing manufacturers say cheap clothing from China is the real danger as it encroaches on both their markets.

From BBC ● May 23, 2026

It has also begun the construction of a wall that encroaches on Lebanese territory, according to Unifil, the United Nations peacekeeping force.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

Throughout the play, this “law and order” blue encroaches on the existence of every color selected by Torres.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025

Even when they aren't being poached, apes are threatened by habitat loss as human civilization increasingly encroaches on their natural habitats.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2024

Since only 10 percent of thru-hikers make it this far, and it is too distant for most day hikers, the trail in Maine is much more thinly used, and so the foliage encroaches.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

The meta-reality and meta-commentary of the broadcast encroached on and eventually overtook the game on the field.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026

Although the technology has encroached on people’s everyday lives in small and large ways, this seemed to be a more egregious example of it in housing.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2025

By the 1860s, the U.S. government reduced the Crow’s land to a much smaller strip, and the park’s creation further encroached on tribal lands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

As the Russian faced match point at 5-4 in the third set, a photographer encroached the playing surface between Bonzi's first and second serves.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025

He saw a soft, stooped creature of a man whose dandelion-fluff hair, beard, and brows encroached upon his face to such a degree that only his sharp little nose and round spectacles showed.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

An orangutan mother and her baby, threatened by encroaching wildfires to their habitat in Indonesia, were rescued earlier this week, authorities said in a statement Saturday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026

This 2.5-inch lizard lives exclusively in the West Texas dunes, where oil and gas production has been encroaching on its territory, the groups argued.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

Keeping the encroaching natural world at bay is a struggle in neighborhoods adjacent to Los Angeles County’s wildlands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

For generations, the Hadzabe, also known as the Hadza, have kept their distance from modern agriculture, guns, missionaries, poachers and encroaching pastoralists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

The rest of the group lined both sides of the road along a hundred-foot stretch where it narrowed from encroaching bush into a single lane.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline