impinge

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Recent Examples of impinge The narrative chronicles Gail’s gradual recognition that her inflexible standards have impinged on her happiness. Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2025 Her present was impinging, too. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025 The images aren’t only stripped of superfluities; they’re hermetically sealed off from anything that could impinge from offscreen, from the world at large. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024 On the other hand, that does impinge on sovereignty issues. Megan Poinski, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for impinge
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Verb
  • At the microscopic level, fluids are composed of particles—little billiard balls bopping around and occasionally colliding—and Newton’s laws of motion work well to describe their trajectories.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2025
  • One of those crashes included a military helicopter colliding mid-air with an American Airlines jet near Reagan Airport, where Thursday’s incident occurred.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Williams and Jimenez went nose-to-nose when Mobile players rushed toward the Spring Hill player and bumped him.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Alas, the Bolts were bumped in the first round by the Columbus Blue Jackets.
    Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Paxton and Cornyn have traded barbs back and forth for years, with the attorney general slamming Cornyn’s votes in favor of additional U.S. aid to Ukraine and bipartisan legislation on gun safety following the 2022 Uvalde school shooting.
    Jared Gans, The Hill, 9 Apr. 2025
  • During their drive back to the house, Leo slams on the brakes.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Once the van doors are shut, Miller, Nero, Porter, and multiple civilian witnesses hear Gray yell and bang against the van, shaking it.
    Steve Earley, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The room began swaying and pictures banged against the walls.
    Muktita Suhartono, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Kamikaze sank their first ship on Oct. 25, 1944, when a navy Zero pilot smashed into the USS St. Lo in the Philippine Sea while carrying a pair of 550-pound bombs.
    CBS News, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Raphinha gets the ball in space and smashes home from the edge of the box.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The next day, animal control officers returned to the home and knocked on the door, but no one answered, authorities said.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Jey landed a big uppercut early in the match that knocked Gunther on his butt.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025

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“Impinge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impinge. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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