collide
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Buzzing slabs of distorted guitar collide with piano, accordion and harmonica, filling all available sonic space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
"Most of those don't collide with anything, most of the time," Matthew Archer, deputy director for launch and space domain awareness at the UK Space Agency told AFP on a visit to the observatory.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Because the most powerful acceleration remains concentrated along the boundary, the overall effect changes only slightly depending on whether the nuclei collide directly or strike each other at an angle.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
She said some birds do not die instantly when shot and instead get startled in the dark and collide with things, but Pellen said that was "not true at all".
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
As I approach an intersection I nearly collide, so it seems to me, with a horse- drawn cart.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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What will happen when a SpaceX rocket collides with the Moon?
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Either way, production collides with weak domestic demand—held back by low confidence, near-zero inflation and the housing bust.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
On another level, though, Pitchford is about what happens when that principle collides with the punishing procedural architecture of modern postconviction review.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2026
When a large meteor collides with Earth, it produces intense heat that melts surrounding rock.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 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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This led to what Ricardo Caballero, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dubbed the “safe-asset shortage”: As investors’ demand for supersafe assets collided with a finite supply, yields plummeted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Post-mortem examinations are to be carried out later on the bodies of five teenage boys killed when their car being driven the wrong way down a motorway in County Kildare collided head-on with another car.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
In May 2025 he was placed in an induced coma, rupturing his intestine when he collided with a post during a game against Leicester.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The second object collided with a cargo plane that had aborted its landing at Leipzig because of the closure, state officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
That would be a disaster if a train collided with Cleopatra’s Needle.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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Brands rushing to Reddit in the hopes of influencing AI outputs are colliding with the platform’s fiercely protective moderators, the WSJ Leadership Institute’s Katie Deighton reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
It is a positioning problem colliding with a macro shock.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Meteorologists said that it was caused by cold air from the north colliding with warm air brought in by Typhoon Maysak in the south.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Video showed Quansah’s studs colliding with Gallardo’s calf and the referee issued Quansah a red card that delighted the crowd as England’s lineup was reduced to 10 men.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
They could not dress more than twenty ships abreast, lest they risk tangling their oars and colliding with each other.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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