gate-crashing

present participle of gate-crash

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Verb
  • That’s why his firm offers privacy-first, non-intrusive monitoring — no screenshots, no keystroke logging — using only numerical signals to reveal productivity trends without invading personal privacy.
    Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Channeling history, Putin has staked a key part of his pretext for invading Ukraine on the claim that neo-Nazi ideology was gaining ground in the neighboring state also viewed as the next potential frontier for NATO expansion.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Taliban was and still is adept at infiltrating aid organizations and diverting aid to fill their coffers.
    Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • OneTaste opened its doors in San Francisco in the early two-thousands, as wellness culture was infiltrating the mainstream.
    Thessaly La Force, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But if your peonies are flowering less over time or nearby plants are encroaching on their growing space, dividing them in fall is one simple solution.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The general rule is that a property owner in Arizona is allowed, at the property owner’s expense, to trim encroaching roots or branches back to the property line.
    Christopher A. Combs, AZCentral.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Mitchell, in contrast, subsumes himself into his subjects, seldom intruding on the surface of his own prose.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2025
  • At once a pragmatist and a romantic, Corry sometimes struggles to keep her scientific brain from intruding on moments of sensory abandon and unguarded feeling.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Both entry points require hikers to stay in the riverbed—which is public land according to Texas law—the entire time to avoid trespassing.
    Eva Frederick, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Never dig or trim plants on the other side of the fence, which could be construed as trespassing.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Huger was charged in March after crashing a vehicle while driving in Potomac, Maryland.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • While relieving himself in the bathroom, a 100-pound bale of marijuana came crashing through the roof into the room the man had just left.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Gate-crashing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gate-crashing. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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