encroachment

Example Sentences

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However, a New York Times report on Monday pointed to deep concerns on the Greenlandic side about encroachment of sovereignty.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

However, such controversy narrows the issue of A.I.’s steady encroachment to one of process, rather than impact.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

The National Union of Healthcare Workers, which represents Kaiser employees, has been among the earliest to recognize and respond to the encroachment of AI into the workplace.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

While banks have embraced some aspects of crypto—helping people invest in bitcoin and using digital assets to make money transfers more efficient—they are drawing a line at encroachment on their core business: consumer deposits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 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