collide

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The sun’s mass makes it a gravity-powered fusion reactor, but on Earth, scientists need other ways to create plasma—a superheated, electrically charged gas—and confine it to force atoms to collide.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

“One Piece” unfolds in an alternate past where futuristic technology, classic pirate imagery and fantasy collide.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

It is, Vigloo promises, "a story that pushes Korean romance to its extreme - power, love, family and revenge collide, and one man moves an entire nation to protect the woman he loves".

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

On Earth, the crust is broken into moving plates that collide, pull apart, and grind past one another.

From Science Daily • Feb. 18, 2026

It will take about three hundred million years for them to collide.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking