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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gate-crash
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This metabolically active fat accumulates around the waist, surrounding and invading the heart, liver, and pancreas.—
Larry Olmsted,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025 -
Georgetown Law School Professor David Super also questioned the amount of deference that Haines gave the administration, including on the questions of whether Tren de Aragua is invading the U.S. and whether the Venezuelan government is responsible.—
Joe Walsh
May 15,
CBS News,
15 May 2025
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Monkey Man told of a man who infiltrates a night club in order to exact vengeance on the man who killed his mother years earlier.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
10 May 2025
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Under Trump’s direction, Musk’s workers had already infiltrated much of the federal government in a lightning operation designed to overwhelm.—
Michael Wilner,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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Locals who spoke to the outlets said that the industrial park had fallen into disrepair in recent years, and teenagers would often trespass onto the property.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
5 May 2025
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That investigation found two other Seattle police officers who also attended the rally had trespassed near the Capitol, and, on a disciplinary committee's recommendation, both were fired.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
20 Apr. 2025
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There is, however, disagreement among conservatives about whether Trump is overreaching — intruding into a matter that should be left to more local authority.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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Just such a breakdown had occurred in Vietnam and Burma in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when colonial authorities began to intrude into peasant life, privatizing village lands, forests, and fisheries and introducing a multitude of punishing taxes.—
Nikil Saval,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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As the Nazis encroached on Czechoslovakia in 1938, the Löw-Beers fled.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 May 2025
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As human settlements expanded on islands where the auk nested, the bird's habitat was further encroached upon.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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Of note: Your Content must not be false, defamatory, misleading or hateful, or infringe any copyright or any other third-party rights or otherwise be unlawful.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
11 May 2025
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The defense team insisted their client wanted to be physically present for the hearing, and argued that ruling otherwise would infringe on his rights.—
Matt Hamilton,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2025
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“Gate-crash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gate-crash. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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