1
as in clashing
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 bumping
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 colliding
At the same time, the Gen Z job crisis is colliding with the student debt crisis, making young people more reluctant to borrow massive amounts of money to obtain a degree with questionable value.
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Jason Ma, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2025
The result of the shove led to Mariota colliding with Commanders head coach Dan Quinn.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
Texas Tech quarterback Behren Morton left Saturday’s game after an injury sustained when colliding with Utah linebacker Jonathan Hall.
—Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 21 Sep. 2025
To hear that soundtrack shake Plaza Mayor during a Herrera show felt like two parts of my life — fashion and personal history — suddenly colliding.
—Alex Badia, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2025
An alert air traffic controller in the New York control center reached out to the Spirit flight, telling it to execute an immediate right turn to avoid any possibility of colliding with Air Force One.
—Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
Entrepreneurs Need Healthy Discourse to Thrive Entrepreneurship thrives on ideas colliding.
—Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The play showed Patterson colliding directly with Sellers just as the sophomore signal caller released the ball.
—Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
The perfect way to test that is to use gravitational waves to measure the surface of two colliding black holes and the resulting, unified black hole.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Jason Ma, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2025
The result of the shove led to Mariota colliding with Commanders head coach Dan Quinn.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
Texas Tech quarterback Behren Morton left Saturday’s game after an injury sustained when colliding with Utah linebacker Jonathan Hall.
—Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 21 Sep. 2025
To hear that soundtrack shake Plaza Mayor during a Herrera show felt like two parts of my life — fashion and personal history — suddenly colliding.
—Alex Badia, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2025
An alert air traffic controller in the New York control center reached out to the Spirit flight, telling it to execute an immediate right turn to avoid any possibility of colliding with Air Force One.
—Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
Entrepreneurs Need Healthy Discourse to Thrive Entrepreneurship thrives on ideas colliding.
—Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The play showed Patterson colliding directly with Sellers just as the sophomore signal caller released the ball.
—Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
The perfect way to test that is to use gravitational waves to measure the surface of two colliding black holes and the resulting, unified black hole.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for colliding
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In the 1960s, the Smothers Brothers, aka Tom and Dick Smothers, pushed the boundaries of what was considered appropriate social comedy in their CBS series, clashing with the network over their content and hosting Black civil rights activist Harry Belafonte on the show.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025
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Speech that legally is allowed is clashing against what Kirk's allies deem culturally acceptable, and those in power appear to have taken their side.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
20 Sep. 2025
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At Penn State, though, some of the key figures involved have been bumping heads for years.—
Ralph D. Russo,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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In older games, that meant randomly cutting to a combat screen when bumping into an invisible creature, but newer ones like 2022’s Scarlet and Violet let users see Pokémon out in the wild.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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The fictional Westside Hospital is a hotbed of conflicting romantic entanglements, along with infectious diseases.—
Julie Hinds,
Freep.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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Research on B vitamins and their association with acid reflux is conflicting.—
Patricia Weiser,
Verywell Health,
22 Sep. 2025
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Springer was apoplectic, slamming his bat to the ground before taking out his frustration on his helmet back in the dugout.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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The bus then hit an SUV, spinning it to the side before slamming into another truck.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
24 Sep. 2025
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Ethan Embry as Mark Embry played the head-banging Empire Records store employee Mark, and had a lot of wild adventures behind the scenes.—
Drew Mackie,
PEOPLE,
22 Sep. 2025
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But then Lacey was back with the kids, banging around in the kitchen, and the first of the evening’s friends and acquaintances began to show up and the blessedness passed, as had the roadrunner, hyperactive and vigilant and always on the make, gone off to seek somebody else’s snakes.—
T. Coraghessan Boyle,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025
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After a 15-year career in New Orleans smashing records with Payton, the now-46-year-old Brees connected with Payton's newest franchise QB this offseason as Nix spent several days traveling down to San Diego for visits.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
22 Sep. 2025
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The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Purini in the wake of Infinity Castle’s record-smashing North American opening.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Sep. 2025
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The 37-second, black and white commercial shows Mickey crashing a boat into Minnie Mouse, prompting her to call the law firm.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Sep. 2025
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That crashing sea, the shoreline jagged with black rock.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
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The suspect accused of ramming a car into a metal gate at the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office quoted Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth during his confession, a special agent revealed in a criminal complaint.—
Greg Norman,
FOXNews.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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After ramming it a few times, a piece of the rudder broke off, and that was even more fun because there was something to play with.—
Ramon Padilla,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Colliding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colliding. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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