collide
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She said some birds do not die instantly when shot and instead get startled in the dark and collide with things, but Pellen said that was "not true at all".
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
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
It had curled gratingly around the end of the truck and, still spinning and sliding, was about to collide with me again.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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What will happen when a SpaceX rocket collides with the Moon?
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Power prices in the region have climbed as data-center growth, particularly in Virginia, collides with the need to add power generation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
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
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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On Sunday, two Bell helicopters collided while operating on the western outskirts of Athens, killing a Danish pilot and his Greek co-pilot.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
According to the Greek Fire Service, the two leased Bell helicopters collided while taking part in efforts to tackle a large wildfire burning on the Attica-Boeotia border.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Until, that is, the predawn hours Sunday when Bader’s scooter collided with the back of a fire engine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
That turbocharged vegetation growth, which then collided with some of the driest, hottest weather on record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Unfortunately, when he leapt backwards, he collided with several of the stuck hand mirrors.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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Now two years in, his vision—called the Network School—is colliding with the real world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
It is a positioning problem colliding with a macro shock.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Meteorologists said that it was caused by cold air from the north colliding with warm air brought in by Typhoon Maysak in the south.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Instead of forming directly from collapsing stars, these black holes may have already been created by earlier black hole mergers before colliding again.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
Under these stars and sky I used to hear stories, but now it seemed as if it was the sky that was telling us a story as its stars fell, violently colliding with each other.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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