collide
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The sun’s mass makes it a gravity-powered fusion reactor, but on Earth, scientists need other ways to create plasma—a superheated, electrically charged gas—and confine it to force atoms to collide.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
They whirl, bounce, and collide within their confined space like loose change shaking violently in a machine, moving so quickly and unpredictably that standard scientific tools have struggled to track them.
From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026
“One Piece” unfolds in an alternate past where futuristic technology, classic pirate imagery and fantasy collide.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
And yet it is where Atkin's two worlds collide.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026
The gas and dust diffusely spread through such galaxies will collide and become warmed.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing collide
Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer - Introductory
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Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer - Middle School
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