as in collides
to come into usually forceful contact with something
hail was noisily impinging upon the car's exterior
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Here, Southern tradition collides with global polish, turning the midmorning meal into something far more dynamic than basic bacon and eggs.—
Rai Mincey,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025 -
Plasma gone in an instant RHIC accelerates beams of particles close to the speed of light and then collides them.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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About 10 minutes in, viewers can see the moment the car slams into the side of the building.—
Austin Mullen,
NBC news,
19 Aug. 2025
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On Thursday, the Mexican American rap star dropped the video, which slams Trump supporters, with Rolling Stone.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
14 Aug. 2025
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At a single, two-minute dinner, Hermann Kafka smashes a cockroach while denigrating his son’s engagement to Felice Bauer before reiterating his distaste for Franz’s writing.—
Sam Bodrojan,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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Excitement around the closing stretch is spilling onto the charts in the United Kingdom, as a wave of Coldplay smashes return and rise this frame.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Impinges.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impinges. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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