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invade

[in-veyd] / ɪnˈveɪd /


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Jenner hates the paparazzi for invading her privacy but sees no moral quandary in collecting a check from Mark Zuckerberg, who wants to invade everyone’s privacy.

From Slate Aug. 5, 2026

"Imagine you're a Martian, you're just about to invade Earth, you're hiding in the moon... and suddenly you meet the martial music of the bagpipe."

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, “Inception”—a script Nolan worked on for about a decade—is a heady heist film about “extractors” who invade other people’s dreams.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Their work helps answer longstanding questions about how these viruses launch replication once they invade a cell.

From Science Daily May 13, 2026

“I'm going there by rediscovering the lost tunnel, see? The one the Romans built to invade Hereford.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

This sharp, darkly comic film follows a Lithuanian couple that splits up just as Russia invades Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Researchers led by Tajie Harris, PhD, set out to understand how the immune system responds when Toxoplasma invades CD8+ T cells, which are specialized immune cells responsible for killing infected cells.

From Science Daily Feb. 16, 2026

If the United States invades Greenland, she will flee her home with her daughter.

From Barron's Jan. 17, 2026

Civil rights groups and privacy campaigners have consistently opposed LFRT, saying it invades people's privacy, and carries an unacceptable risk of misidentification.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2025

The old blue hopelessness invades my sleep and I’m crossing the river, looking back at the faces of children begging for food, “Cadeaux! Cadeaux!”

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

At least six Kyiv markets have been damaged or destroyed since Russia invaded in 2022, according to an AFP tally.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

This man told us that when the Russians invaded, his family had stayed, not through any political or national allegiance but because Donetsk was their home.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

In court, the state and cities argued that Operation Metro Surge had invaded state and municipal authority.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

A tranquil opening shot consists of a beautiful seaside view that’s quickly invaded by buzzing drones carrying packages.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

To be honest, on that particular day, Hanako hadn’t felt astonished to see their home invaded.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

Although Perez’s livestream proceeded for around 15 minutes before it was shut down, screenshots and clips rocketed across the internet, invading countless social media feeds.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2026

Jenner hates the paparazzi for invading her privacy but sees no moral quandary in collecting a check from Mark Zuckerberg, who wants to invade everyone’s privacy.

From Slate Aug. 5, 2026

When arginine is scarce, cells struggle to produce MHC-1, a protein that helps alert the immune system to threats such as mutated cells and invading viruses.

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

He still gets emotional recalling the remarkable reception he received landing on “Pluribus,” his first American set, to play one of 13 individuals in the world immune to an invading hive mind.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

When the Red Army met the invading Germans to fight back, the concentrated force and fury along that line became known as World War II’s Eastern Front.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein




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