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collide

[kuh-lahyd] / kəˈlaɪd /


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These trends collide with longstanding financial advice for 20- and 30-somethings: Sock away funds for a down payment and buy a house, both as a place to live and as your main source of wealth.

From MarketWatch Sep. 16, 2026

When those two instincts collide, it’s bound to be complex and conflicting, and Greengrass delivers that with a boots-on-the-ground style.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

Terra Drone’s answer: Unmanned aerial vehicles that use radar, cameras and artificial intelligence to collide with hostile drones, minimizing the need for highly trained pilots.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

When atomic nuclei collide at enormous speeds, their constituents can transform into an extremely small droplet of quark-gluon plasma.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

The instruments didn’t blend so much as collide, like rocks caught in a lawn mower.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

What will happen when a SpaceX rocket collides with the Moon?

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

When a large meteor collides with Earth, it produces intense heat that melts surrounding rock.

From Science Daily Apr. 3, 2026

That concern deserves consideration—until it collides with the reality of how licensed treatment actually functions.

From Slate Mar. 11, 2026

Chances are, the theory won’t stand up after it collides with real-world costs.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

Equally, if a real photon collides with an atom, it may move an electron from an orbit nearer the nucleus to one farther away.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

In October 2025, a Metrolink train collided with another train near Union Station, leaving multiple people injured.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2026

According to this idea, a Mars-sized body called Theia collided with the early Earth.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

Copper prices climbed to fresh records on U.S. and UK exchanges as distortions to trade flows due to concerns over potential U.S. tariffs collided with supply challenges at key mines worldwide.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38, died when a Volkswagen Passat collided with their marked armed response car on the A66 at South Bank, near Middlesbrough, on 22 August.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

It seems that two planes collided, unable to see each other in the dark.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Red Bull's Liam Lawson took sixth, ahead of Alpine's Franco Colapinto and McLaren's Oscar Piastri, delayed by a front wing issue after colliding with Russell on the first lap.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

"The measurements were performed using data collected during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider, where fast-moving lead nuclei pass close to one another without directly colliding," Tapia Takaki said.

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

So we potentially have three trends colliding at once: Aging, plus GLP-1 weight loss, plus a growing willingness to spend on aesthetics.

From MarketWatch Sep. 5, 2026

A Turkish cargo ship sank in the Marmara Sea near Istanbul after colliding with a second vessel, with rescuers searching for its 10 crew members, Turkish officials said Wednesday.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

The empty land stretches as far as I can see, a brown plane colliding with the horizon.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth




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