invade
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Upholstered furniture, cabinets and vanities from the north weren’t about to invade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Why invade some place if you basically already control it?
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 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
In 2023, then-CIA director William Burns predicted China would be ready to invade by 2027.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Imports are defined as evil because they allowed foreign countries a way to invade Cambodia, not just physically but also culturally.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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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
The afterglow of aristocratic grace, the poet noted, was obscured by the “rising tide of democracy, which invades and levels all things.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
The current odds External link that the U.S. invades Greenland in 2026, acquires Greenland in 2026, or acquires Greenland in 2027 are 10%, 23%, and 18%, respectively.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
When his huge frame invades the narrow doorway, the memory of him hits me like whiplash.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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By the time the sneaker giants came to their senses, they had already ceded that prime real estate to the unfamiliar, funny-looking products that have invaded our closets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The Tapestry narrates how—following the death of England’s king, Edward the Confessor—William, Duke of Normandy, invaded England and defeated the last Anglo-Saxon king, Harold Godwinson, at Hastings, Sussex.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
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
On the day Russia invaded, they had planned to produce a first batch of a new sparkling wine.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
When the German army invaded and conquered Poland in September 1939, more than three million additional Jews came under Nazi control.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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He warned Putin against invading Ukraine, citing intelligence the U.S. collected about his plans for an all-out assault.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
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
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
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
How the curls on her left side were invading his personal space, and how he didn’t mind, not one bit.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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