as in invasion
a sudden attack on and entrance into hostile territory
there were incursions from the border every summer
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Recent Examples of incursion
The United Nations Security Council also met to discuss the incursion.
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Steve Inskeep, NPR, 24 Sep. 2025
The incursions have alarmed European officials, who have issued stern warnings to Russia about further violations.
—Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
Last week’s Russian drone incursion into NATO member Poland drew strong condemnation from European NATO allies, and pledges of more planes and troops for the bloc’s eastern flank.
—Jill Lawless, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025
The Hill: Zelensky condemns Russian incursion in Romanian territory.
—Colin Meyn, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
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Steve Inskeep, NPR, 24 Sep. 2025
The incursions have alarmed European officials, who have issued stern warnings to Russia about further violations.
—Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
Last week’s Russian drone incursion into NATO member Poland drew strong condemnation from European NATO allies, and pledges of more planes and troops for the bloc’s eastern flank.
—Jill Lawless, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025
The Hill: Zelensky condemns Russian incursion in Romanian territory.
—Colin Meyn, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incursion
Noun
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Though Russian craft have repeatedly violated NATO airspace during its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the shootdowns over Poland represented the first time NATO had shot down Russian drones.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
1 Oct. 2025
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The project was originally inspired by a brochure, In Case of Emergency or War, which the Ukrainian Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security began distributing to the public a few weeks before the invasion in early 2022.—
Joanna Warsza,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Yet there has been an asymmetry between the Sturm und Drang of that operation—a midnight raid featured agents rappelling from helicopters onto a South Side apartment building—and its effect.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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Adults and children alike were pulled from their apartments, crying and screaming during the raid, which led to the arrests of 37 undocumented immigrants.—
Whitney Wild,
CNN Money,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Incursion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incursion. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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