encroach

This will give low pressure an opportunity to encroach and bring the chance of much-needed rain.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 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

School districts have seen an explosion in special education costs in recent years, forcing them to encroach on their general funds.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

They have been a part of the city landscape since the 1930s, when urban sprawl began to encroach on their rural territory.

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

Ivy held prior place in this lost garden, the long strands crept across the lawns, and soon would encroach upon the house itself.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

In fact across the region mitumba traders and local clothing manufacturers say cheap clothing from China is the real danger as it encroaches on both their markets.

From BBC ● May 23, 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

Throughout the play, this “law and order” blue encroaches on the existence of every color selected by Torres.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025

New research shows how the world's oases have grown and shrunk over the past 25 years as water availability patterns changed and desertification encroaches on these wet refuges.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 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

However, his groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks remained for many his greatest work - portraying an idyllic American small town encroached by a chaotic unconscious world.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025

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

The blackness encroached around my field of vision as I pulled myself up, eighteen steps, steep as hell.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

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

Keeping the encroaching natural world at bay is a struggle in neighborhoods adjacent to Los Angeles County’s wildlands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

Now, with a nod from regulators, cryptocurrency firms are encroaching on that territory, and investors in the operators’ stock are worried.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026

For generations, the Hadzabe, also known as the Hadza, have kept their distance from modern agriculture, guns, missionaries, poachers and encroaching pastoralists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

She was to have been the answer to his unstated, unacknowledged question—where was the life to counter the encroaching nonlife?

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison