invade
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Constitutional privacy is not lost because the government chooses to invade it one fragment at a time.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
“The kind of war to which we were used, the kind of war that Russia had in mind in Ukraine—to invade and occupy a nation—is no longer conceivable,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Their work helps answer longstanding questions about how these viruses launch replication once they invade a cell.
From Science Daily ● May 13, 2026
Experts will be working to establish whether something has changed that may make it more likely to spread or better able to invade the body or to get into brain tissues than other strains.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
“You’re asking me to invade the embassy of a foreign government because you felt a hole in the astral waves. What kind of evidence is that?”
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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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
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
One in 200 infections lead to more serious problems, when the virus invades the brain and nervous system.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2024
A sorrow as black as the night outside invades me, and I feel my throat clamping.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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“A large group of agitators invaded Newport Beach, spurred on by an alleged ‘TikTok Takeover,’” the Instagram post read, which was later attributed to Joe DeJulio, president of the police association.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
“I’ve always associated horror with summertime, actually. Like ‘Friday the 13th,’ ‘Sleepaway Camp’” — in essence, the freedom of summer invaded by fear and death.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
Either the government has invaded a protected privacy interest or it has not.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
Better known by his call-sign of Madyar, Brovdi was a wealthy grain trader with no military background when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
They had divided their forces, I learned: some remained on the eastern borders, not far from the Greenway, and some invaded the Shire from the south.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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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 prince gave emotional testimony during the proceedings in which several high-profile figures, including singer Elton John and actor Elizabeth Hurley, accused the tabloid publisher of invading their privacy.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
The prince gave emotional testimony during the proceedings, in which several high-profile figures, including pop star Elton John and actor Elizabeth Hurley, accused the tabloid publisher of invading their privacy.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
He seems to have been part of a group of cultured Britons who argued with one another about how to tackle the many problems they faced—not least the invading Saxons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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
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