impinge

Example Sentences

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World Athletics said allowing the athletes to transfer their nationality "would impinge upon and compromise the imperatives underlying the World Athletics eligibility rules and transfer of allegiance regulations".

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

She really believed that she was seeking consensus, tolerant of all perspectives as long as they didn’t impinge on her beliefs, the origins of which are poignantly related later in the play.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2025

In other words, actions like mining development, agriculture and so on, unleash a whole lot of chemicals which impinge on us every day.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2024

“We can build an inclusive environment in many ways, but compelled statements impinge on freedom of expression, and they don’t work.”

From New York Times • May 6, 2024

And yet in the Superficies of the thinned Body, where it is of any one thickness, there are as many parts for the Rays to impinge on, as where it is of any other thickness.

From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Newton, Isaac, Sir