incursion
Example Sentences
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For decades, India avoided large-scale construction along much of its border, calculating that the soaring Himalayas and a lack of roads would deter a Chinese incursion.
He also expressed hope that talks between Syria and neighbouring Israel, which has carried out bombings and incursions in Syria since Assad's fall, would "reach a conclusion".
From Barron's
Paramount acquiring Warner Bros. is more like a Hollywood studio merger than a Big Tech incursion.
From MarketWatch
It remains the last major US incursion on foreign soil in the Americas.
From BBC
The Lithuanian government has declared a "nationwide emergency situation" in response to a series of incursions from neighbouring Belarus by weather balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.