gate-crashing

Definition of gate-crashingnext
present participle of gate-crash

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Verb
  • The same belief system that pushed him to advocate for invading Iraq has driven him to speak out forcefully on immigration, on LGBT rights, and so on.
    Suzanne Schneider, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Harold is known as the last Anglo-Saxon king who strove valiantly against invading threats, but whose efforts were ultimately futile, Wright added.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 23 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • By 1968, there were some three thousand Mary Kay consultants; over the following decades, the number grew to hundreds of thousands as the company expanded worldwide, infiltrating even Russia and China.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • But the show instantly makes a rod for its own back by waiting until Episode 3 to turn its hero into the Count and get all the treasure-hunting, high society-infiltrating, and Machiavellian scheming underway.
    Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • And nearly three-in-five Americans today fear the encroaching AI job apocalypse could make housing even more unattainable.
    Jake Angelo, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • This is news that is bound to be celebrated by many in the creative community who have become loudly and vehemently opposed to anything AI encroaching on Hollywood.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 24 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • But instead of being destroyed like other intruding pathogens, the spores germinate and multiply.
    Hannah Kinzer, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026
  • This vireo actually is singing its song to woo a mate or deter another potential romantic partner from intruding on its territory.
    Sheryl DeVore, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Transit officials said the fence was essential and long overdue to prevent people from trespassing on the tracks and being killed, as trains were becoming faster and more frequent.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
  • On Monday, March 2, two weeks before the fire, the person living in the basement apartment in the building complained to the property manager that Slate was trespassing in the maintenance and boiler area, Pekara said.
    Tara Molina, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Rendered incapable of future flight after crashing in January 2024 and damaging its rotor blade, the 4-pound Ingenuity performed 72 flights for nearly three years at Mars.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • One person was shot in a rolling shooting Sunday evening in Overland Park that ended with one of the vehicles involved crashing at a Prairie Village park, a police spokesman said.
    Robert A. Cronkleton March 23, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2026
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“Gate-crashing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gate-crashing. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.

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