invade

Why invade some place if you basically already control it?

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

If China does invade, Lin says he would “fight tooth and nail” to defend the island.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 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

Constitutional privacy is not lost because the government chooses to invade it one fragment at a time.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

In the east, Russian troops, poised on the border of East Prussia, were about to invade Germany and advance toward Berlin.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

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

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 17, 2026

In an infected person, the fungus invades the body and causes symptoms such as fever, chills, sepsis and organ failure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025

"We knew that Salmonella invades the small intestine, although it is not its primary site of replication. The colon is," said the lead author of the study Andreas Bäumler.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2024

I’m laughing and the cold invades my lungs.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

By the time the sneaker giants came to their senses, they had already ceded that prime real estate to the unfamiliar, funny-looking products that have invaded our closets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Before the US invaded Iran, it was trading at around $73.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

The Tapestry narrates how—following the death of England’s king, Edward the Confessor—William, Duke of Normandy, invaded England and defeated the last Anglo-Saxon king, Harold Godwinson, at Hastings, Sussex.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Ever since Iraq invaded Kuwait, curious motorists passing through the Mojave Desert have stopped to ask the way to Bagdad, the California ghost town named in the 1800s for the Middle Eastern capital.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

On September 17, 1939, Russia invaded Poland from the east.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

When neutrophils encounter pathogens, they can release toxic substances and even destroy themselves, spilling long strands of biological material that form web-like traps around invading microbes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

By placing bets on acquiring a full fleet of uncrewed systems, including aerial and undersea drones, Taiwan hopes to build defensive capabilities intended to make its far more powerful adversary think twice about invading.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

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

From those nuclear areas, hunter-gatherers of some neighboring areas learned food production, and peoples of other neighboring areas were replaced by invading food producers from the nuclear areas—again at widely differing times.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond