encroachment

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Noun
  • Cronenberg has made a thriller of justified technological paranoia, of the internet’s myriad parasitic intrusions into the human realm.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The cane toad’s transition from pest eater to invasive species is a reminder of how quickly human intrusion into wild processes can spin out of control.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Troops from China, which is Russia's closest trading partner but officially neutral on Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion, would mark an escalation in the war.
    Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
  • King's son argued that the recordings, which include some made in the King family home, constitute an invasion of privacy.
    Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • It was framed as a copyright infringement lawsuit, rather than a battle over ownership due to a three-year statute of limitations that was maxed out multiple times over because Country Grammar was released 24 years ago.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The bill includes a notice-and-takedown provision, similar to existing regulation of online copyright infringement.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Later, hundreds of NYPD officers in riot gear intervened to remove over 100 people who illegally occupied a campus building; the activists were charged with offenses including burglary, trespass, and criminal mischief.
    The Editors, National Review, 25 Mar. 2025
  • As she had already been banned from all Walmarts in the U.S., she was also charged with trespass.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • That came after Twins pitcher Simeon Woods Richardson was given a pitch-clock violation that led to a walk for the Royals’ Jonathan India.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2025
  • His attorneys and family have rejected the government’s claims, calling his detention unjust and a violation of due process.
    Hanna Park, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The drone attacks come as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged for the first time that his forces had staged an incursion into Russia's Belgorod region, although one military analyst told Newsweek that the operation was not an intensive one.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
  • That said, those incursions into Florida territory proved fruitless, which probably shouldn’t come as a surprise.
    Nick Ashbourne, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
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“Encroachment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encroachment. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.

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