encroachment
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Akbarzadeh said Iran would “not allow any kind of encroachment upon its waters and interests.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
The Gemini military business might eventually represent a small encroachment on Palantir’s turf, but the larger message is that the military will adopt a lot of AI tools in the future.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
If the former Beatle does join them backstage, he may find that the encroachment of age has altered their pre-show rituals.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
That’s why unions and other representatives of filmmaking humans are nervous about the encroachment of AI into their livelihoods.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
During the first three decades after the Treaty of Paris was signed, allied Indigenous nations in the Ohio Country and the southern states were involved in several struggles to resist settler encroachment.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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The Federalist Papers, No. 51 by James Madison
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Vocabulary Video Contest (2013) - List 1
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