collide
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Electrons and positrons can collide and transform into gamma-ray photons, while gamma rays themselves can collide and create new particles.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
Past and present don’t collide so much as they fuse together; they aren’t two opposing places in time, but rather, a straight line.
From Salon • May 25, 2026
“At some point the market is going to collide and prices are going to shoot up.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
"If mishandled, the two nations could collide or even come into conflict," he said.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
She thought of Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer kissing each other sideways so that their noses didn’t collide.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Vocabulary lists containing collide
Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer - Introductory
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