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“His ambitions will soon collide with the fiscal reality,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 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

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

The industry is approaching what Cox calls “a moment of truth,” as stratospheric valuations collide with ballooning capex and slower-than-expected adoption of the technology.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

We collide with the chain-link fence, but rather than busting through it, it holds...and then I realize it’s slowly bending forward.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman




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