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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

"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

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

He decided that he and his Mongols should invade Japan.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

This sharp, darkly comic film follows a Lithuanian couple that splits up just as Russia invades Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

“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

It happens when an infection invades the brain, with symptoms including a high temperature, fever, confusion, headaches or seizures.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 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

I’m laughing and the cold invades my lungs.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

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

"That man that invaded my stage should never have been there three or four more times," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Overgrown foliage has invaded the front yard of the Silver Lake home that Vela Gonzalez used to maintain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky met separately with top US envoys in a renewed push to end the fighting, which began when Russian forces invaded neighboring Ukraine more than four years ago.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

German troops invaded Poland from the west, engaging the Russians in a succession of fierce battles around the cities of Warsaw and Lodz.

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

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

The authors, both entomologists, detail violent territorial battles between colonies and against invading predators.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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

Soon after they left, two Inka ran to Pizarro, claiming that they had just fled from the invading army.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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