collision course
Example Sentences
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"He could, and should, have acted differently" when his ship was on "an obvious collision course" with the tanker, Little told the trial.
From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026
European and American mores on speech are on a collision course.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the Gulf Coast to develop his company’s ambitious Starship, he put the 400-foot rocket on a collision course with the commercial airline industry.
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2026
That ruling likely sets the San Francisco case on a collision course with other lawsuits seeking to curb ICE’s incursions into spaces previously considered off-limits.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
