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invade

[in-vayd] / ɪnˈveɪd /


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It's been nearly five years since his predecessor William Burns made this trip and that was at a similarly tense time, just as Russia was drawing up plans to invade Ukraine.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Why invade some place if you basically already control it?

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

If China does invade, Lin says he would “fight tooth and nail” to defend the island.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Constitutional privacy is not lost because the government chooses to invade it one fragment at a time.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

Every time the Angkar thinks the Youns will invade Cambodia, the soldiers stock up on food and supplies and ship more rice to China in exchange for guns.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

Jurgen Klopp started his reign as Germany's head coach by threatening to quit if the media invades his family's privacy.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

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

If the United States invades Greenland, she will flee her home with her daughter.

From Barron's ● Jan. 17, 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

By the time the sneaker giants came to their senses, they had already ceded that prime real estate to the unfamiliar, funny-looking products that have invaded our closets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Before the US invaded Iran, it was trading at around $73.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Ever since Iraq invaded Kuwait, curious motorists passing through the Mojave Desert have stopped to ask the way to Bagdad, the California ghost town named in the 1800s for the Middle Eastern capital.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

On the day Russia invaded, they had planned to produce a first batch of a new sparkling wine.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

Many of these chattels were on their way to ruin by the late rains, their veneer being invaded by the water and swelling so that the wood wrinkled and buckled.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

He warned Putin against invading Ukraine, citing intelligence the U.S. collected about his plans for an all-out assault.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Although Perez’s livestream proceeded for around 15 minutes before it was shut down, screenshots and clips rocketed across the internet, invading countless social media feeds.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

When arginine is scarce, cells struggle to produce MHC-1, a protein that helps alert the immune system to threats such as mutated cells and invading viruses.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

He still gets emotional recalling the remarkable reception he received landing on “Pluribus,” his first American set, to play one of 13 individuals in the world immune to an invading hive mind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

Sefia grasped for answers, her vision flooding into the darkest corners of his past, invading his history.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee




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