collide
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This effect occurs when hydrogen molecules collide with helium atoms under the immense pressures found in these stars.
From Science Daily ● 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
Dillon Amaya, an oceanographer at North Carolina State University, said the elevated sea levels could collide with other natural phenomena to create problems for coastal communities.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Political leaders collide with reality sooner or later, and new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s first collision arrived this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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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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
If a loss of fiscal and monetary credibility in major economies collides with higher commodity prices, the IMF predicts global growth would be reduced by 0.2 and 0.5 percentage point in 2026 and 2027, respectively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
A maximalist salon collides with a backstage circus dressing room in the Silver Lake apartment of stylist Wendi Weger, whose delightful fusion of art and fashion is behind the Curatorial Dept. in Atwater Village.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
At 1-1, Roberto Carlos' seemingly harmless cross was lofted high into the Hampden Park sky, destined to drop where D and penalty box chalk collides.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
In the winter the frigid air that flows north from the Pole creates one cyclone after another and collides with warmer air from the tropics, spinning off gales, hurricanes, and blizzards.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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Within this disk, countless small particles gradually collided and stuck together, building larger objects through a process called accretion.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Those jitters collided with investors getting caught off-guard in their positioning for several more Federal Reserve rate hikes, and for higher long-dated Treasury yields.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Another collided with a different plane, and a third detonated near the airport perimeter, authorities say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
One theory for the origin of the moons -- the "giant impact" hypothesis -- is that they formed after a celestial body collided with Mars.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
At every turn, Shirley collided with her mother.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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“The AI buildout is colliding with a grid that cannot deliver power fast enough,” Morgan Stanley’s Andrew Percoco wrote in a separate report on Tuesday.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Those colliding factors have pushed up the cost of moving crude and making fuel across the supply chain, raising the price to operate everything from cars and trucks to commercial jets and farming equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Not for the first time parading, policing and power-sharing are colliding and finding the route out of this row isn't yet obvious.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
"At the LHC, we're colliding particles at extremely high energy, which corresponds to tiny distance scales," Incandela said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
The ballet powerfully evoked these two colliding worlds.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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