collide
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The states and Paramount will collide in court again on Aug. 3, when the judge takes up the expected motion for a preliminary injunction — which could tie up the deal for months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
These accounts collide with the present era’s eerie uncertainty at every turn, making for an altogether riveting, cyclical listening experience that tells her life’s story without smoothing its contradictions.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Scientists believe repeated mergers like these are most likely to happen in crowded environments such as dense stellar clusters, where black holes have many opportunities to interact and eventually collide.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
This installation stages basins filled with floating ceramic bowls, which drift and collide in an improvised soundscape that takes its title from the term for the random movement of atoms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Trapping birds near an airport does little to reduce the number of times a bird will collide with a plane as it takes off or lands.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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On another level, though, Pitchford is about what happens when that principle collides with the punishing procedural architecture of modern postconviction review.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2026
When a large meteor collides with Earth, it produces intense heat that melts surrounding rock.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2026
Chances are, the theory won’t stand up after it collides with real-world costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
The good collides with the bad at such an intense pace that the resulting impact leaves the film comatose.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2026
It collides with ROM’s love potion, which spills all over the blanket and the bed, producing a small puff ofsmoke.
From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling
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"Our cosmic forensics team used collisional and dynamical models to link these to the formation of the Eulalia asteroid family, when a primitive carbonaceous chondrite-like object collided with another object," Bottke said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
However, his time at Radcliffe included a tragic incident when a car he was driving collided with an oncoming cattle truck in Staffordshire.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The almost parabolic moves in parts of EM equities have been driven by earnings, as strong demand has collided with shortages and supply has struggled to catch up, he said in an interview.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
A United Airlines plane nearly collided with a drone last week as it came in for a landing at Newark Liberty International Airport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
During the rescue effort that followed, two of the search aircraft collided with each other.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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It is a positioning problem colliding with a macro shock.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Earlier superluminous supernovae had occasionally shown one or two bumps, often explained as shock waves colliding with shells of gas surrounding the dying star.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
Wall Street’s race to deploy artificial intelligence is colliding with executives’ fears of upending their workforces and the well-trod path to finding the next masters of the universe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Although Muncy left the game after colliding Arizona first baseman Ildemaro Vargas, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said he thinks Muncy will be available to play over the weekend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
I imagine the wave of water colliding with the rock and spilling over the tile floor, collecting around my shoes.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
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