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invade

[in-veyd] / ɪnˈveɪd /


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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

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

From Slate Jun. 29, 2026

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

From Science Daily May 13, 2026

Danish soldiers flown to Greenland in January were prepared to blow up key airport runways over fears that US President Donald Trump could invade the Arctic island, Denmark's public broadcaster DR says.

From BBC Mar. 19, 2026

“We are on peaceful terms with the spinners. We trade with them, we do not invade each other’s lands...but it would be an exaggeration to call them our friends.”

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

The afterglow of aristocratic grace, the poet noted, was obscured by the “rising tide of democracy, which invades and levels all things.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 15, 2026

The current odds External link that the U.S. invades Greenland in 2026, acquires Greenland in 2026, or acquires Greenland in 2027 are 10%, 23%, and 18%, respectively.

From Barron's Jan. 14, 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

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

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

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

Cambridgeshire Constabulary says it was "very stretched" on the January day last year when Mathew Latta's farm was invaded, and the force says it did not respond the way it would have wanted.

From BBC Jul. 25, 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

Seattleites, however, can attest that Burning Man’s ruin began long ago, pretty much since Microsofties and Amazonians invaded it in the early aughts.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

But a few years later, in 1939, after the Nazis invaded Poland, trouble caught up with him.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

Translated into constitutional terms, Minnesota argued that the surge violated federalist principles by invading the state’s reserved police powers: the broad authority to govern public health, safety, welfare, and order.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

Perhaps it should surprise no-one that a country whose national anthem reminisces about sending an invading English army homeward "tae think again" does not stand four-square behind the "Auld Enemy".

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

The High Court trial earlier this year saw Harry give an emotional testimony as the prince, pop star Elton John, actor Elizabeth Hurley and other public figures accused the tabloid publisher of invading their privacy.

From Barron's Jul. 6, 2026

An upset stomach was the story that struck fear into the Scotland support invading Boston prior to their opener, but he still played.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2026

In fact, we know from recorded history that English really was carried from there to England by invading Anglo-Saxons in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D.

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




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