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impinge upon





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"So many clubs are in MCOs that to introduce a set of rules would impinge upon them," Maguire added.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

There’s so many factors that can impinge upon the expression of that bond.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2022

Achieving a world in which one’s sexual orientation does not impinge upon one’s life choices and opportunities is the crux of the gay rights movement — or at least it used to be.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2020

Any financial support for local media must include thoroughgoing safeguards to ensure that public funding does not impinge upon the editorial independence.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2020

It is quite evident that man may gaze at a distant star and be little the wiser concerning the different lengths of the waves which impinge upon his eyes.

From Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion by Gibson, Charles R. (Charles Robert)




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