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invade

[in-veyd] / ɪnˈveɪd /


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"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

Constitutional privacy is not lost because the government chooses to invade it one fragment at a time.

From Slate Jun. 29, 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

Their work helps answer longstanding questions about how these viruses launch replication once they invade a cell.

From Science Daily May 13, 2026

I came to wonder if every disease of man and beast had simply waited for my arrival to invade the valley.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

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

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

Phnom Penh city wakes early to take advantage of the cool morning breeze before the sun breaks through the haze and invades the country with sweltering heat.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

Fedorova, 45, is the former head of the French arm of RT, which was banned in France after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

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

In 1942, two years after Germany invaded France, we moved to a communal house in Dieulefit, near the Alps.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Seventeen days after Germany had invaded Poland from the west, the Soviet Union had invaded from the east.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz

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

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

While my older siblings continue whispering about banks and loans and finance things I don’t understand, I’m stuck on the idea of the FBI invading our house.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller




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