invade
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Mr. Lee takes us viscerally back to that strike through flashbacks and news videos, and before the police invade we sense its atmosphere of hopeful possibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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
"Imagine you're a Martian, you're just about to invade Earth, you're hiding in the moon... and suddenly you meet the martial music of the bagpipe."
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Kennedy was offering to promise not to invade Cuba in exchange for the removal of the Soviet missiles.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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A rowdy card of mixed-martial arts invades the South Lawn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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
They argue it invades people's privacy and carries an unacceptable risk of misidentification.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 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
The old blue hopelessness invades my sleep and I’m crossing the river, looking back at the faces of children begging for food, “Cadeaux! Cadeaux!”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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Joe Luc Barnes, a British journalist, was living in Moscow when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
He signed up to defend Ukraine when Russia invaded even though he had several children and was exempt - and fought until December 2023.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Lavrov last met with a German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, in January 2022, less than a month before Russian forces invaded Ukraine.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 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
On February 20, the crew awoke to find that their floe had been invaded by an enormous flock of Adélie penguins migrating north.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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By binding to molecules the fungus uses during infection, these regions help plants recognize the presence of an invading pathogen and activate their defenses.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Russia’s enormous size once helped it defend against the invading armies of Hitler and Napoleon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
When neutrophils encounter pathogens, they can release toxic substances and even destroy themselves, spilling long strands of biological material that form web-like traps around invading microbes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 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
He could have made trees walk the streets like invading giants.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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