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[in-veyd] / ɪnˈveɪd /


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It's been nearly five years since his predecessor William Burns made this trip and that was at a similarly tense time, just as Russia was drawing up plans to invade Ukraine.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

But the last known CIA chief to visit, William Burns in 2021, warned Mr. Putin not to invade Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

The latest discovery to invade my algorithms arrived when Claude took a stab at a tantalizing math problem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Jenner hates the paparazzi for invading her privacy but sees no moral quandary in collecting a check from Mark Zuckerberg, who wants to invade everyone’s privacy.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

It seemed that in the thirteenth century, Mongolia sent a huge fleet of ships to invade Japan.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

A rowdy card of mixed-martial arts invades the South Lawn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

“One doesn’t have the right to express themselves in a violent way, that invades someone else’s place of tranquility,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026

It happens when an infection invades the brain, with symptoms including a high temperature, fever, confusion, headaches or seizures.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026

Researchers led by Tajie Harris, PhD, set out to understand how the immune system responds when Toxoplasma invades CD8+ T cells, which are specialized immune cells responsible for killing infected cells.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2026

When his huge frame invades the narrow doorway, the memory of him hits me like whiplash.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

Ever since Iraq invaded Kuwait, curious motorists passing through the Mojave Desert have stopped to ask the way to Bagdad, the California ghost town named in the 1800s for the Middle Eastern capital.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

In early 2022, shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine and with the pandemic easing, Poland said it could no longer afford to take delivery of 63 million more doses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Overgrown foliage has invaded the front yard of the Silver Lake home that Vela Gonzalez used to maintain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Stagg played a crucial advisory role when US General Dwight D Eisenhower invaded Normandy, laying the foundations for the Allied victory in World War Two.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

We do know that afterward, the woman staring out of the painting—Lisa Gherardini—will watch as the city around her is invaded and pillaged.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Although Perez’s livestream proceeded for around 15 minutes before it was shut down, screenshots and clips rocketed across the internet, invading countless social media feeds.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

When arginine is scarce, cells struggle to produce MHC-1, a protein that helps alert the immune system to threats such as mutated cells and invading viruses.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

The authors, both entomologists, detail violent territorial battles between colonies and against invading predators.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

He still gets emotional recalling the remarkable reception he received landing on “Pluribus,” his first American set, to play one of 13 individuals in the world immune to an invading hive mind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

Atahuallpa’s presence at Cajamarca thus highlights one of the key factors in world history: diseases transmitted to peoples lacking immunity by invading peoples with considerable immunity.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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