collide
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Inside his new thriller, those themes collide under the fluorescent glare of LAX.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
The plan comes as Anthropic’s plans for a major initial public offering collide with public discontent around AI.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
As galaxies interact and collide, some stars are pulled away from their original galaxies and spread throughout the cluster.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
When these charged particles collide with oxygen and nitrogen, photons of coloured light are emitted - this is the aurora.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
I don’t know under what circumstances they’d ever collide, and something about that makes me feel incredibly sad.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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As the rock collides with air molecules, both its surface and the surrounding gas heat up and begin to glow.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
So his injury risk might be lower if he collides with a kick returner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Investors face a test this week as a fresh round of corporate earnings collides with rising borrowing costs and growing questions about the economics of the AI boom.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
The McLaren of James Hunt is tipped into the air as it collides with the Brabham of John Watson at the start of the 1977 race at Long Beach.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
She brushes away the thought, but then the responsible-person guilt collides with the burn in her legs and the ache in her toes.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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According to the Southlake Police Department, Rycroft allegedly collided with a Southlake Fire Department ambulance that was sitting at a stop sign just before 6 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Puente said on Wednesday a computer failure at about 08:30 that morning led to the initial halt of six moving trains, including the two trains that subsequently collided.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
A wind turbine installation vessel called the Wind Orca collided with a container ship berthed at the Port of Tyne.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Within this disk, countless small particles gradually collided and stuck together, building larger objects through a process called accretion.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
She let out a whoosh of air as her right foot hit the floor on the other side just as her left shoulder collided with the door frame.
From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau
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The court heard Richardson had driven through "give way" markings at a junction in Warburton before colliding with the father-of-two, who went under the Volvo XC90.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Even more puzzling, astronomers have not reliably identified a pair of supermassive black holes orbiting extremely close together, despite abundant evidence of colliding galaxies.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Their demands, however, are colliding with the financial realities of a cash-strapped French state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
“The AI buildout is colliding with a grid that cannot deliver power fast enough,” Morgan Stanley’s Andrew Percoco wrote in a separate report on Tuesday.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Otto and Sheed were yanked off their feet, colliding with one another.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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