invade
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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
Citing sources in the Danish government, it reported that soldiers, medical supplies and blood were flown into Greenland in January to blow up key airport runways over fears that Trump would invade the arctic island.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
And me and Mong and Rondell were hiding out watching the ocean to make sure nobody came floating up in a raft to try and invade our island.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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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
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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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
By the fall of 1990, for example, after Iraq invaded Kuwait, industry losses ran into the billions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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
Europe’s invaded countries set up governments in exile in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, to make war plans as a group of “Allied” nations fighting together against German aggression.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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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
"I felt I wanted to move away, he was invading my personal space," she told the court.
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
Reviews were overwhelmingly positive for the sequel about a tablet invading the world of Jessie, Woody and Buzz Lightyear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
In other regions—including much of Central America, Mexico, Peru, New Caledonia, the former Soviet Union, and parts of Indonesia—civil unrest or guerrilla warfare pits still-numerous indigenous populations against governments dominated by descendants of invading conquerors.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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