collision course
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And that set the biggest car market in the nation on a collision course, with Detroit, and with Washington, D.C.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
Former OpenAI employees founded Anthropic in 2021 on the premise that AI development should prioritize safety -- a philosophy that now puts it on a collision course with the Pentagon and the White House.
From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026
European and American mores on speech are on a collision course.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
Just as the parade reaches City Hall, another parade is on a slow-motion collision course with our own.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
He remained convinced that romantic behavior was basically monotonous and predictable, and that therefore one could write a fairly straightforward formula that would predict the collision course of any two people.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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