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One witness said the gunfire began after a traffic collision, which drew the attention of a nearby police officer.

Physicians are overwhelmed because we are in the middle of a collision of powerful unrestrained forces.

It was this music that would set up the collision between poor blacks and middle-class whites that would result in Rock & Roll.

The “cultural collision of Brits and Yanks threatened but never quite broke the partnership,” writes Symonds.

In November, Kiir dissolved all internal party structures, setting the two men on a collision course.

He used every artifice to prevent a collision between the French and Neapolitan troops.

He must keep a reasonably careful lookout for other travelers in order to avoid collision; also for defects in the highway.

A collision on the Susquehanna rail road, near Baltimore, by which 30 persons were killed, and a large number badly wounded.

During the last year a serious collision took place between the Chinese authorities and the British subjects at Canton.

During the preceding year the British power in India came into hostile collision with the Ghilzies.

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On this page you'll find 66 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to collision, such as: blow, bump, butt, concussion, contact, and crash.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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