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Shares of Alphabet were punished on signs that AI’s advance may encroach on a crucial part of its business, even as its data-center spending push continues.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

"We ask that Australia clarify how exactly 'harm' and 'risks' shall be determined... ensuring these definitions do not encroach on protected speech," the US said in its submission.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

But now a number of banks have started to consider whether there could be a need for both, even if only as a defensive play, as some executives worry stablecoins could encroach on their businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Books occupy a unique place within physical media — one of the last forms that does not track, monitor, or encroach on the humans who read them.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

“We certainly won’t encroach on your territory. We just ate outside of Seattle, anyway,” he laughed.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

The Akal Takht says the law does not limit itself to criminalising acts of sacrilege but also encroaches on matters that should be decided by Sikh religious institutions.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

It also has begun the construction of a wall that encroaches on Lebanese territory, according to Unifil, the United Nations peacekeeping force.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

Her plan also encroaches on land owned by the Catholic Archdiocese, which is reserving it for fexpansion of Holy Cross Cemetery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025

Agriculture, however, is also an important economic sector and often encroaches into unprotected tropical forest areas.

From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024

Since only 10 percent of thru-hikers make it this far, and it is too distant for most day hikers, the trail in Maine is much more thinly used, and so the foliage encroaches.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

The meta-reality and meta-commentary of the broadcast encroached on and eventually overtook the game on the field.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026

At the time, Lord Rennard apologised if he had "inadvertently encroached" upon "personal space".

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

Although the technology has encroached on people’s everyday lives in small and large ways, this seemed to be a more egregious example of it in housing.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2025

By the 1860s, the U.S. government reduced the Crow’s land to a much smaller strip, and the park’s creation further encroached on tribal lands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

As far as the troll was concerned, his territory was being encroached on.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Among them is hostel owner Issa Nazzal, who sits in his office in the picturesque Palestinian town of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, looking out the window at the encroaching settlement on the hilltop.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

Still, that didn’t stop the pair from giving their opinions on the encroaching role that the technology is taking on in Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Then concerns over the strength of AI demand and encroaching Chinese competition punctured the semiconductor rally.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

This 2.5-inch lizard lives exclusively in the West Texas dunes, where oil and gas production has been encroaching on its territory, the groups argued.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

It warmed Meggie’s heart just to see it, but all too often it disappeared behind the tall, ugly buildings covering the narrow strip of land that lay between the water and the encroaching hills.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke