Thesaurus results for ENCROACHES

encroaches

verb

present tense third-person singular of encroach

as in invades

to advance gradually beyond the usual or desirable limits each year the sea continues to encroach upon the island's beaches

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Recent Examples of encroaches Paglen’s ideas, collected between two covers, carve a clean, linear path through our messy neural era, engaging in the kind of big-picture sense-making that books remain well suited to do, even as AI encroaches on this terrain. —

Louis Bury, ARTnews.com, 1 May 2026 Meta, Anthropic and Apple all now use TPUs, as Google increasingly encroaches on a market cornered by Nvidia's graphics processing units. —

Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026 As the Chinese men shoot the breeze and play cards, a mob of armed white miners gathers over the hill and encroaches on the unsuspecting outsiders. —

Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026 Cloud Dancer, a white that is both warm and cool, reflects an overwhelmed feeling among consumers as the world feels louder and technology, in particular AI, encroaches further into our lives. —

Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025 As the third weekend of November encroaches upon us, so does the holiday season — and streaming networks are picking up the cheer in full swing. —

Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025 The study reveals as urbanization increasingly encroaches upon bat-safe caves, invasive, city-dwelling rats are likely to follow. —

NPR, 8 Nov. 2025 Apparently, our west block wall encroaches six feet into our neighbor’s back yard, which includes our swimming pool motor and related equipment. —

Christopher A. Combs, AZCentral.com, 16 Sep. 2025 While a new generation of young singer-songwriters encroaches on country music’s old guard by the day, the Texas barnstormer has found his footing with a fan base hell-bent on capturing every moment Myers affords them. —

Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025

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The video shows the religious leader begging the Lebanese Army not to withdraw from southern Lebanon, as Israel invades.

— Lauren Frayer, NPR, 5 Apr. 2026
Acute myeloid leukemia begins in the bone marrow and typically invades the bloodstream thereafter, according to the American Cancer Society.

— David Oliver, USA Today, 17 Mar. 2026