1
as in to clash
to be out of harmony or agreement usually noticeably
the candidate had a reputation as a maverick whose positions often collided with the party platform
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as in to bump
to come into usually forceful contact with something
fortunately, I wasn't hurt when my bike collided with that fence
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Recent Examples of collide
More recently, a brief post-pandemic boost in luxury retail ended in 2023, when a drop in demand among Chinese consumers collided with younger shoppers' changing priorities.
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Emily Lorsch, NBC news, 30 Jan. 2026
Hair and clothes collided at couture week.
—Essence, 30 Jan. 2026
Creative work has always depended on friction; the discomfort that comes when opposing forces are allowed to collide rather than be smoothed away.
—Richard P. Weigand, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2026
The plow collided with an eastbound Toyota Tacoma pickup, which went through the median and struck a BMW traveling westbound.
—City News Service, Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
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Emily Lorsch, NBC news, 30 Jan. 2026
Hair and clothes collided at couture week.
—Essence, 30 Jan. 2026
Creative work has always depended on friction; the discomfort that comes when opposing forces are allowed to collide rather than be smoothed away.
—Richard P. Weigand, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2026
The plow collided with an eastbound Toyota Tacoma pickup, which went through the median and struck a BMW traveling westbound.
—City News Service, Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for collide
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The championship hopefuls from the Fort Worth area could clash with DeSoto in an eventual playoff run.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Jan. 2026
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However, the club’s defensive crisis has eased somewhat, with Ibrahima Konate set to return to the side for Saturday’s home Premier League clash with Newcastle United after missing three matches following the death of his father.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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After being bumped to September for three straight years because of the NSCAR Street Race, the Taste of Chicago is reclaiming its longstanding dates in July, the city announced.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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Now, it’s been bumped down to #2.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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If you are conflicted about a player or a decision, get more information.—
Jeff Zrebiec,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2026
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The prospect of xAI powering Tesla’s humanoid robots could be seen as conflicting with past statements that Tesla’s leadership has made in attempts to portray the work the two companies are doing as largely separate and unrelated.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2026
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An agent pepper sprayed him, smashed his window and dragged him out of the car, according to his account.—
Jude Joffe-Block,
NPR,
31 Jan. 2026
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By smashing together heavy atoms of lead traveling at near-light speeds using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scientists can create a high-energy environment that briefly frees gluons and quarks from this atomic bondage, recreating the quark-gluon plasma of the early universe.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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On June 7, 2024, the Wisconsin driver of a Ford 150 slammed into it at 78 miles per hour.—
Megan De Mar,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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Police previously confirmed that the two teenage girls had been riding on a sled being pulled by a 16-year-old male in a Jeep Wrangler when the sled struck a curb and slammed into a tree.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
28 Jan. 2026
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My ten-year-old granddaughter was marching and banging her little saucepan with a salad spoon.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Libby and director Tyne Rafaeli certainly do not miss an opportunity to bang that gavel.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
29 Jan. 2026
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Small plane crash in Colombia kills 15 BOGOTA, Colombia -- A small plane crashed Wednesday in a rural area of Norte de Santander province in northeast Colombia, killing all 15 people on board including a member of congress, authorities said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 2026
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In pictures shared by the CHP, multiple trucks and cars were seen crashed into each other, with personal belongings lying on the ground.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
29 Jan. 2026
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Journalist Don Lemon was released from custody Friday after he was arrested and hit with federal civil rights charges over his coverage of an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 Jan. 2026
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But of all the spaghetti that got thrown at the wall, this is the one that hits for reasons that are totally orthogonal to politics and sort of Washington.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Collide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collide. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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