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Recent Examples of encroach
The White House is nonetheless fielding complaints, made in private and public, from Republicans who believe Trump is encroaching on Congress’s power of taxation and threatening to send the United States into an economic backslide.
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David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
Now to see again, the third time, essentially, their desire to expand the freeway and encroach towards McCrorey Heights, is problematic.
—Charlotte Observer, 24 Oct. 2025
The partnership was formed to address the invasive trees and shrubs encroaching on the natural grasslands in TNC's Folsom Point Preserve in Iowa, which is located just over 12 miles from Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Ideal for the coats-and-boots season fastly encroaching.
—Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
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David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
Now to see again, the third time, essentially, their desire to expand the freeway and encroach towards McCrorey Heights, is problematic.
—Charlotte Observer, 24 Oct. 2025
The partnership was formed to address the invasive trees and shrubs encroaching on the natural grasslands in TNC's Folsom Point Preserve in Iowa, which is located just over 12 miles from Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Ideal for the coats-and-boots season fastly encroaching.
—Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for encroach
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Some of those territories were invaded with the tacit support of Western allies keen to prop up an anti-communist leader, at a time when proxy conflicts backed by the US and the Soviet Union raged across the Global South.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
11 Nov. 2025
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Russia’s national teams have been banned from IIHF competition since the country invaded Ukraine in February 2022, so a player like Privalov can’t participate in the U18 Worlds or the World Juniors.—
Corey Pronman,
New York Times,
11 Nov. 2025
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After getting off to a hot start from 3-point range to open the season, entering the game shooting over 46% from long distance as a team, the chilly weather crept into Halton, cooling off the green and white.—
Hunter Bailey,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Nov. 2025
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In the end, the Democrats mostly oriented their demands toward health care—above all, the renewal of expiring Obamacare subsidies—as opposed to, say, prioritizing more abstract ultimatums related to creeping authoritarianism.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
11 Nov. 2025
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Long lines snaked around the terminal Sunday.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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Two incumbents — west Charlotte’s Thelma Byers-Bailey and Summer Nunn, whose district snakes along the county’s southern border — chose not to run for reelection to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education.—
Josh Bergeron,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Encroach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encroach. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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