collision
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Because it can respond differently depending on the speed of an impact, it could absorb energy or deform in a controlled way during a collision, helping reduce the risk of injury.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
But in “Two Ships,” an engrossing intellectual history, David S. Reynolds sheds light on a cultural collision that shaped early America up to the Civil War and beyond.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Should Portugal and Argentina both win their groups, the bracket will have them on a collision course for the quarterfinals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
He stopped his car, walked towards the collision and saw his brother sitting in the BMW, adding they made "eye contact".
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
This hasn’t stopped some believers—physicists included—from picketing high-energy laboratories like Fermilab; they believe that a high-energy collision could cause a spontaneous collapse of the vacuum.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing collision
Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer - Introductory
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