invade
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Constitutional privacy is not lost because the government chooses to invade it one fragment at a time.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
“The kind of war to which we were used, the kind of war that Russia had in mind in Ukraine—to invade and occupy a nation—is no longer conceivable,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Their work helps answer longstanding questions about how these viruses launch replication once they invade a cell.
From Science Daily ● May 13, 2026
Only rarely do they get through the barriers at the back of the nose and throat to invade the body and cause meningitis and sepsis.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
It seemed that in the thirteenth century, Mongolia sent a huge fleet of ships to invade Japan.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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A rowdy card of mixed-martial arts invades the South Lawn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
“One doesn’t have the right to express themselves in a violent way, that invades someone else’s place of tranquility,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
It happens when an infection invades the brain, with symptoms including a high temperature, fever, confusion, headaches or seizures.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
Researchers led by Tajie Harris, PhD, set out to understand how the immune system responds when Toxoplasma invades CD8+ T cells, which are specialized immune cells responsible for killing infected cells.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2026
Phnom Penh city wakes early to take advantage of the cool morning breeze before the sun breaks through the haze and invades the country with sweltering heat.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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In 1942, two years after Germany invaded France, we moved to a communal house in Dieulefit, near the Alps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Argentina, ruled at the time by a military junta led by General Leopoldo Galtieri, invaded the islands, situated 300 miles off Argentina's east coast, in 1982.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
“A large group of agitators invaded Newport Beach, spurred on by an alleged ‘TikTok Takeover,’” the Instagram post read, which was later attributed to Joe DeJulio, president of the police association.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
“I’ve always associated horror with summertime, actually. Like ‘Friday the 13th,’ ‘Sleepaway Camp’” — in essence, the freedom of summer invaded by fear and death.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
Sea otters invaded streams and ponds, gobbling up freshwater fish and driving out many of the longtime residents.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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Perhaps it should surprise no-one that a country whose national anthem reminisces about sending an invading English army homeward "tae think again" does not stand four-square behind the "Auld Enemy".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
"I felt I wanted to move away, he was invading my personal space," she told the court.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The prince gave emotional testimony during the proceedings in which several high-profile figures, including singer Elton John and actor Elizabeth Hurley, accused the tabloid publisher of invading their privacy.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
The prince gave emotional testimony during the proceedings, in which several high-profile figures, including pop star Elton John and actor Elizabeth Hurley, accused the tabloid publisher of invading their privacy.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
After he’d taken over half of Poland, Stalin had a go at invading Finland in the winter of 1939-40.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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