gate-crashing

Definition of gate-crashingnext
present participle of gate-crash
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Verb
  • Driving Saddam Hussein from Kuwait was justified, but invading his country over a decade later was not.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2026
  • As with everything, artificial intelligence is invading courtrooms.
    John Seiler, Oc Register, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Expect launch photos, snaps of historic hardware destined for space, images of the night sky and, from time to time, photographic evidence of our entertainment editor Ian Stokes infiltrating Amazon's London office to sneak a peek at their May the 4th Star Wars offering … allegedly.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 2 May 2026
  • In The Second Lady, when America’s beloved First Lady is abducted and replaced by a Russian double, both women must fight to survive—one navigating captivity in Siberia, the other infiltrating the White House to sabotage NATO during the G7 Summit.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • An encroaching fog is disrupting the ferry schedule.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Space can also prove an issue, because some school administrators see even tiny gardens in 5-gallon buckets as encroaching on their schools’ playgrounds.
    Shelley Mitchell, The Conversation, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • There are worse things that could happen than Jimmy Fallon intruding upon your life in the game and being forced to adapt to that.
    Emily Longeretta, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Where that movie was about one man intruding upon everyone else’s thoughts, however, this one is about everyone else’s thoughts intruding upon one man.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Hours after his release, North Patrol Deputies responded to a business near Fair Oaks Boulevard and San Lucas Way for a report of the same man trespassing on property.
    Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 3 May 2026
  • While monitoring predators at Python Cave — which is home to Egyptian fruit bats confirmed to be infected with the virus — in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park, scientists recorded hundreds of humans trespassing to visit the area.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • And yet, this underwhelming sequel reads more like a slow-motion rendering of the exact moment such notoriously cumbersome IP came crashing down on its challenger.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 May 2026
  • An 18-year-old man died on Sunday after losing control of his car and crashing on Highway 74 in Riverside County, according to the California Highway Patrol.
    Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 6 May 2026
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“Gate-crashing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gate-crashing. Accessed 7 May. 2026.

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