collision course

Example Sentences

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Cerebras Systems’ planned initial public offering could be putting secondary pricing and public-market valuations on a collision course.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

And that set the biggest car market in the nation on a collision course, with Detroit, and with Washington, D.C.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

"He could, and should, have acted differently" when his ship was on "an obvious collision course" with the tanker, Little told the trial.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the Gulf Coast to develop his company’s ambitious Starship, he put the 400-foot rocket on a collision course with the commercial airline industry.

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2026

The cars were safe, but the world and heavens were now on a collision course with the basketball game.

From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman