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Recent Examples of infringe
Lawyers for the city of Chicago and state of Illinois have argued that the deployment of National Guardsmen will decrease public safety, exacerbate tensions in the city and infringe on the state’s sovereignty.
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Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2025
Studios are collectively calling out OpenAI over Sora 2 for generating characters that infringe on their copyrights.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, wrote in a July op-ed for the Sacramento Bee that wearing a mask does not infringe on ICE agents or the federal government’s ability to perform their duties, and therefore the law should be constitutional.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
Free speech advocates argue age verification laws infringe on First Amendment rights, and are largely ineffective in restricting access to adult content.
—Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 20 Sep. 2025
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Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2025
Studios are collectively calling out OpenAI over Sora 2 for generating characters that infringe on their copyrights.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, wrote in a July op-ed for the Sacramento Bee that wearing a mask does not infringe on ICE agents or the federal government’s ability to perform their duties, and therefore the law should be constitutional.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
Free speech advocates argue age verification laws infringe on First Amendment rights, and are largely ineffective in restricting access to adult content.
—Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 20 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infringe
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Tuesday’s announcement comes after Israel accused Hamas of violating the truce by firing on Israeli forces in Rafah and reneging on promises to return missing hostage remains.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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In a complaint filed in 2023, Gannett and the other plaintiffs accused Google of violating federal antitrust laws by abusing its dominant position to control and profit from the technology used by publishers to buy and sell ads across the internet.—
USA TODAY,
USA TODAY,
29 Oct. 2025
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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
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There are concerns that tax rises could impinge on already lackluster economic growth.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
15 Oct. 2025
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While breaking a K-pop contract early is typically associated with exorbitant penalties for artists, the group suggested that the label breached contract first, citing alleged mistreatment and mismanagement.—
Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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Disney immediately sued YouTube for poaching him, and sued Connolly for breaching his contract.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
30 Oct. 2025
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In the middle of the festivities, Cameron and Ray watch as it's revealed that Iraq has invaded Kuwait.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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But when Russia invaded Ukraine, South Africa repeatedly abstained from United Nations votes on the war—rankling officials in Washington.—
Richard Fontaine,
Foreign Affairs,
27 Oct. 2025
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Beijing rebutted the accusation, saying the Australian aircraft had intruded into Chinese airspace.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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China should also agree to hold fewer and smaller military exercises around Taiwan and stop intruding into Taiwan’s contiguous zone, which extends 24 nautical miles around the island.—
STEPHEN WERTHEIM,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Oct. 2025
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His tenure helped further entrench the NOI in the Northern part of Philly.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Members of Congress are entrenched in disagreements over health care policy with little bipartisanship on the horizon.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Infringe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infringe. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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