collide
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In death, the beloved bald eagle’s final resting place has ignited a bitter clash where internet fame and tribal rights collide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
“His ambitions will soon collide with the fiscal reality,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
"Most of those don't collide with anything, most of the time," Matthew Archer, deputy director for launch and space domain awareness at the UK Space Agency told AFP on a visit to the observatory.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
But parts of the rocket are shed in space and remain there, stuck in orbit unless they eventually collide with another celestial body.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Now that I’ve made worlds collide, I’m in less control than I ever was before.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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Either way, production collides with weak domestic demand—held back by low confidence, near-zero inflation and the housing bust.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
At 1-1, Roberto Carlos' seemingly harmless cross was lofted high into the Hampden Park sky, destined to drop where D and penalty box chalk collides.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
When a large meteor collides with Earth, it produces intense heat that melts surrounding rock.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2026
In an era when pressure is always mounting and global chaos consistently collides with personal crises, being an active participant in our own lives feels utterly exhausting.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026
She continues her pacing and almost collides with the coffee table.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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A Los Angeles Fire Department ambulance that was taking a patient in serious condition to a hospital collided with another vehicle on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
In April that year, another jet fighter fell off the USS Harry S. Truman while deployed to fight Houthi militants in the Red Sea, just weeks after it collided with a merchant vessel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
The captain of an oil tanker that collided with a cargo ship which sank off Istanbul leaving 10 missing has been arrested along with his third-in-command on charges of negligent homicide, prosecutors said Friday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
A second defendant Abubakar Adamu, 35, the driver of the stationary lorry the car collided with, denies a charge against him of obstructing the free flow of traffic.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
A split second before they collided, the Special seemed to disappear, slipping out of sight like a coin in a magician’s hand.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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So we potentially have three trends colliding at once: Aging, plus GLP-1 weight loss, plus a growing willingness to spend on aesthetics.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
A Turkish cargo ship sank in the Marmara Sea near Istanbul after colliding with a second vessel, with rescuers searching for its 10 crew members, Turkish officials said Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Renewed interest in nuclear power is colliding with mania over artificial intelligence here at the Idaho National Laboratory’s desert campus, a remote site that spans an area nearly twice the size of Los Angeles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
If valence quarks alone carried the baryon number, explaining the excess away from the beamline would require all three valence quarks from one colliding proton to stop near the center of the detector.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
The world was a verdant blur of color all around her—hues of deep green colliding with browns and blacks, and the occasional pink or yellow.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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