intrude
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"The court does not intrude on parliament by ensuring parliament can sit," the judgement said.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
Saber-rattling trumpet and timpani intrude and are shushed away as worthless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
Woodward decision established clear limits on state power to intrude on private corporations, strengthening corporate rights and autonomy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2025
These thoughts even intrude on him when he’s reading for fun—or trying to.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025
As I ran the sound of my footfalls was pitched off short in the vast immobile dawn, as though there was no room amid so many glittering sights for any sound to intrude.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
Instead, rising magma intrudes into Yellowstone’s shallow hydrothermal system, rapidly vaporising immense volumes of water.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Anderson plays the children's mother, whose presence intrudes into the family's lives despite her apparently having been killed by wolves.
From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026
Time can have a curious ebb and flow in “The Shadowless Tower,” a ruminative Chinese drama in which the past intrudes on — and at times overwhelms — the present.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
Yet even as crew members go through their motions, the world intrudes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
Into my restless sleep a figure in white intrudes.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
The Kim regime seethed when, on four different occasions between September and January, drones intruded into North Korea’s airspace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
This signal confirmed that magma had intruded beneath the volcano.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 15, 2026
“I have never desecrated any family heirloom or intruded upon anyone’s private memorial,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
The 1859 "pig dispute" involved contested islands near Vancouver and the unfortunate shooting of a British hog that had intruded on an American's garden.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025
Although he was often recognized in the street, few Icelanders intruded on his privacy.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
But make-believe can only get one so far when the real world keeps intruding.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
The way everyone responded to this error—by turning a simple mistake into a ritual flogging—only bolsters the toxic notion that the press is forever viciously intruding on the secret, sacred work of perfect jurists.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
The characters in her novels long for stability in landscapes where the past is forever intruding on the present—they teeter on the shifting border between perception and fact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
There are so many negatives intruding that investors would be lucky to escape the coming year in one piece.
From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025
He tried to brush it all aside as he got on with the morning, but the image of her face kept intruding, and the haunting echo of her words: Everyone will die.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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