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
When two such nuclei collide with sufficient energy, the boundaries of their protons and neutrons effectively break down, releasing the quarks and gluons inside them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 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
When these charged particles collide with oxygen and nitrogen, photons of coloured light are emitted - this is the aurora.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Workers pack the square, cheering his words that echo and collide in midair.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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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
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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A cargo ship has collided with a docked cruise ship in New Orleans, Louisiana, with reports suggesting more than 120 people were on board the cruise ship.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
During the crash, his brown Maserati convertible collided with an unoccupied Tesla, according to the criminal complaint filed in July.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
The scientists could also examine how the outcome changed depending on whether the oxygen nuclei collided directly or merely grazed one another.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Leaked audio recordings published by Spanish media have shed light on communications between a control centre and train drivers in the moments before two trains collided outside Toledo.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
She hesitated only for a moment—a moment in which risk and reason, fear, and a kind of buoyant, eager curiosity collided visibly across her face.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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Owono, 25, was sent off after colliding with De Miguel during the closing stages of the second-tier match between their two respective sides on 2 November.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
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
Their demands, however, are colliding with the financial realities of a cash-strapped French state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
By colliding heavy ions at nearly the speed of light, researchers can briefly separate quarks and gluons and produce tiny amounts of the same kind of matter that existed during the universe's first microseconds.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
The world was a verdant blur of color all around her—hues of deep green colliding with browns and blacks, and the occasional pink or yellow.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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