as in colliding
to come into usually forceful contact with something hail was noisily impinging upon the car's exterior
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Recent Examples of impinging Upgrades will require significant reinforcement of some walls and elevator shafts, though engineers have found ways to do the work by pouring new concrete footings and installing additional steel bracing without significantly impinging on internal spaces or being visible on exterior surfaces. —
Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026 In principle, besides fluctuating stars transients can be associated with other things, too, such as extreme space weather events impinging on the upper atmosphere, sunlight glinting off reflective objects near Earth, as well as flaws in the telescope or the imaging process. —Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2025 Workers aren’t necessarily worried about AI impinging on their jobs – a large majority, 80%, view AI technologies, including gen AI, as more of an opportunity than a threat. —Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025 Democrats are apoplectic, accusing Trump of impinging on the Fed’s independence. —Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 26 Aug. 2025
Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026 In principle, besides fluctuating stars transients can be associated with other things, too, such as extreme space weather events impinging on the upper atmosphere, sunlight glinting off reflective objects near Earth, as well as flaws in the telescope or the imaging process. —Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2025 Workers aren’t necessarily worried about AI impinging on their jobs – a large majority, 80%, view AI technologies, including gen AI, as more of an opportunity than a threat. —Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025 Democrats are apoplectic, accusing Trump of impinging on the Fed’s independence. —Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 26 Aug. 2025
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Two Southwest Airlines planes had to take evasive action to avoid colliding Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee, after an air traffic controller directed one pilot to turn into the path of the other plane.— Josh Funk, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
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But the push is already colliding with reality.— Catherine Thorbecke, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2026
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Back-rower Abi Burton had to lock for the first time, 19-year-old back-rower Demelza Short debuted, and Emma Sing got a shot at fullback, bumping Ellie Kildunne to the wing.— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2026
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Five years later, Marquinhos was chest-bumping Thiago Silva, his countryman and mentor at PSG, after forcing Mohamed Salah to run the ball out of play at the Parc des Princes for Liverpool.— Stuart James, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
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Video emerged online showing a red Ferrari shooting out of a tunnel along the highway at a high speed, slamming into a concrete barrier where the road curved and erupting into flames.— Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
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Hamadeh, who won his seat in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District in 2024, also spent time in his speech slamming top Democrats with insults.— Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 17 Apr. 2026
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Jurors then heard sounds of banging and choking and Athena screaming and crying, the Star-Telegram reports.— KC Baker, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
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On the night he was arrested, Martinez confessed to shaking Heather and banging her head against a crib, but later recanted that confession.— Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2026
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In footage shared by the BBC on X, Medvedev, who suffered a 6-0 6-0 loss during the 49-minute match, was filmed smashing up his tennis racket six times and angrily tossing it across the court.— Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
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At the nearly 17-mile-long circular particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that sits deep below the French Alps, CERN scientists recreated the quark-gluon plasma by smashing together atomic nuclei of iron at near-light speed.— Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Apr. 2026
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Doing that at speed without crashing requires constant correction.— Adriana James-Rodil, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
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The aircraft exploded minutes after takeoff from Colón, a Caribbean port city about 50 miles from the capital, before crashing without survivors.— Antonio Maria Delgado, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026
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In the first shooting, Homeland Security officials accused a man of weaponizing his car and ramming a law enforcement vehicle in an attempt to flee.— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
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Watson founded the global Sea Shepherd conservation movement in the 1970s and for decades won a fearsome reputation for ramming vessels and other aggressive tactics in confrontations on the high seas that repeatedly landed him in jail.— CBS News, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
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The Iranians have been knocking around in the United States’ critical infrastructure for years.— Sue Halpern, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
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Serve it at room temperature so the salad on top won't wilt (and the cooking is complete before the guests come knocking).— Ashlyn Ware, Midwest Living, 24 Apr. 2026
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“Impinging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/impinging. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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