impinge
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"It is important that nothing is said that would either potentially defame an individual, nor impinge upon the police investigation which is ongoing," stated the letter, signed by two senior members of the church.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025
Human rights advocates fear the new policy will impinge on civil rights.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 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
Fraunhofer’s Diffraction Phenomena.—A very general problem in diffraction is the investigation of the distribution of light over a screen upon which impinge divergent or convergent spherical waves after passage through various diffracting apertures.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
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