invade
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It's been nearly five years since his predecessor William Burns made this trip and that was at a similarly tense time, just as Russia was drawing up plans to invade Ukraine.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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
“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
The female doctor on the other end was a parasitologist, someone who studies how parasites, such as worms, invade and damage the body.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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They argue it invades people's privacy and carries an unacceptable risk of misidentification.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 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
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
"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
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This man told us that when the Russians invaded, his family had stayed, not through any political or national allegiance but because Donetsk was their home.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Unfortunately, that created what Pill described as a tinderbox, ignited by the energy crisis after Russia invaded Ukraine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
When Russia invaded, 55-year-old Trotsenko -- who was born in Soviet Kazakhstan -- switched from making car charging stations to military robots.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
After Russia invaded, "there was an explosion of bottom-up initiative".
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
But when Hitler invaded Poland on September 1,1939, and launched the start of World War II, Dasch decided his duty was to his native country.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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
The landscape presented its own challenge: It is littered with ammunition, the legacy of a World War II battle in which the invading U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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
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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