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Recent Examples of infringe
Free speech advocates argue age verification laws infringe on First Amendment rights, and are largely ineffective in restricting access to adult content.
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Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 20 Sep. 2025
There is a process to designate groups as foreign terrorist organizations, but without a foreign connection, such a designation could infringe on Americans' First Amendment rights.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
The separate but similar episodes have sparked a firestorm of accusations, predominantly from Democrats, that Trump and allies are using the federal government to infringe on free speech.
—Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
Beryl Lipton, senior investigative researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), told Forbes that amassing and combining vast amounts of information in the way Tangles does can infringe on citizens’ rights.
—Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 20 Sep. 2025
There is a process to designate groups as foreign terrorist organizations, but without a foreign connection, such a designation could infringe on Americans' First Amendment rights.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
The separate but similar episodes have sparked a firestorm of accusations, predominantly from Democrats, that Trump and allies are using the federal government to infringe on free speech.
—Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
Beryl Lipton, senior investigative researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), told Forbes that amassing and combining vast amounts of information in the way Tangles does can infringe on citizens’ rights.
—Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infringe
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The president of the European Commission highlighted that in just the last two weeks, Russian drones and warplanes have violated the airspace of six European nations, scrambling jets, grounding commercial flights and posing a direct threat to EU citizens.—
Caitlin McFall,
FOXNews.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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Lawsuits filed in recent days claim the federal government is overstepping its authority and violating constitutional protections.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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Blakeney, who left Universal last spring, specializes in equipping theme parks with all of the unsexy infrastructure required to function—toilets, cellphone towers—as well as ensuring that none of it impinges on the illusion.—
Bianca Bosker,
The Atlantic,
14 Sep. 2025
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Workers aren’t necessarily worried about AI impinging on their jobs – a large majority, 80%, view AI technologies, including gen AI, as more of an opportunity than a threat.—
Joe McKendrick,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Any player investigated for breaching the sport’s anti-doping or anti-corruption rules will receive financial assistance, confidential third-party counseling and additional free legal support.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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Netanyahu has insisted that Israel will not free him, but the pressing timetable is such that many red lines on both sides will likely be breached.—
Ruth Margalit,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
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On October 7, 2023, as a terrorist army invaded Israel intending to commit genocide against the Jewish people, many world leaders rightly condemned Hamas’ murder, rape, and slaughter of Israelis and foreign nationals.—
Ofir Akunis,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes trying to invade our bodies.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
6 Oct. 2025
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To Dalio, that rhetoric is the hallmark of a late-stage debt cycle, before reality intrudes.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2025
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Married life has, in the past, come with the couple dealing with others intruding on their joint personal time — like those neighbors who made a noise complaint about them in 1999.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Oct. 2025
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The digital dirham likely further entrenches the US dollar’s dominance, because the UAE’s currency is pegged to the greenback, but gives US regulators less oversight over financial flows.—
Kelsey Warner,
semafor.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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That smile is entrenched on Mann’s face these days and knocking it off is virtually impossible.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Infringe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infringe. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.
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