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encroachment

noun as in infringement

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But urbanisation has seen encroachment onto these age-old grazing routes and locals accuse the Fulani of letting their cattle trample their crops and forcing them out of their homes and fields.

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Now, fires, drought and human encroachment on their habitat are driving them into wealthy suburbs.

But that would ban exports the president has already judged to pose no security risk—a dangerous encroachment on the president’s foreign-affairs power.

Inside the company, signs of Amazon’s encroachment didn’t go over well.

Meloni, leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, condemned Wednesday's ruling as "yet another encroachment on the jurisdiction of the government and parliament".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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