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invade

[in-vayd] / 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

"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

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

So Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Jurgen Klopp started his reign as Germany's head coach by threatening to quit if the media invades his family's privacy.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

A rowdy card of mixed-martial arts invades the South Lawn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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

Breton spring, and a great onslaught of damp invades the coast.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Russia was invaded by the Nazis in World War Two, and the country's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman was among who criticised the planned shows.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Lavrov last met with a German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, in January 2022, less than a month before Russian forces invaded Ukraine.

From Barron's ● 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

Not I. They had invaded our village with clatter and din, had taken from us the maidan where our children played, and had made the bazaar prices too high for us.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Its east rolls through vast steppes, easily crossed by centuries of invading armies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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

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

To support Austria in its conflict with Russia over Serbia, Germany had attacked France by invading Belgium.

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




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