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invade

[in-veyd] / ɪnˈveɪd /


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Why invade some place if you basically already control it?

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 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

"But this is the first time someone managed to invade our lives like this - and drag our children into it."

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

All of the risk stemmed from Hitler’s decision to break his nonaggression pact with Stalin and invade the western part of the U.S.S.R. in June 1941.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

He had seen an image of Polybotes’s army about to invade Camp Jupiter.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

“One doesn’t have the right to express themselves in a violent way, that invades someone else’s place of tranquility,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 17, 2026

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

"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

When his huge frame invades the narrow doorway, the memory of him hits me like whiplash.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

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

In early 2022, shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine and with the pandemic easing, Poland said it could no longer afford to take delivery of 63 million more doses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Stagg played a crucial advisory role when US General Dwight D Eisenhower invaded Normandy, laying the foundations for the Allied victory in World War Two.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Is a subject eager to publicize a political struggle prepared for the risk that her personal privacy will be invaded in the process?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

As for the King, the Duke learned his intentions when the Duke invaded Tuscany after the capture of the Duchy of Urbino: the King forced him to abandon that campaign.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

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

Taipei hopes to build defensive capabilities that will make its far more powerful adversary think twice about invading.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 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

Meggie didn’t know what was so exciting about times when, if Elinor was to be believed, your only choice was between dying of the plague or getting slaughtered by invading soldiers.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke




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