encroachment
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Encroachment by players into the box when the penalty is taken will only be penalised if it has an impact.
From BBC • Aug. 15, 2024
Encroachment on their land by farmers and industry has reduced the pandas’ space while cutting them off from other populations with which to breed.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2022
Wallace Stevens wrote, “She dreams a little, and she feels the dark/ Encroachment of that old catastrophe,/ As a calm darkens among water-lights.”
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2015
Encroachment on airspace at general aviation airports is not a new problem, nor is the rapid growth that has swallowed up the communities surrounding small, semirural airparks across the United States.
From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2015
Encroachment on Sleep.—There is just one defect about some of the more absorbing recreations—they keep a man up too late.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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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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