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Recent Examples of infringe
Lawyers for the city of Chicago and state of Illinois have argued that the deployment of National Guardsmen will decrease public safety, exacerbate tensions in the city and infringe on the state’s sovereignty.
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Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2025
Studios are collectively calling out OpenAI over Sora 2 for generating characters that infringe on their copyrights.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, wrote in a July op-ed for the Sacramento Bee that wearing a mask does not infringe on ICE agents or the federal government’s ability to perform their duties, and therefore the law should be constitutional.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
Free speech advocates argue age verification laws infringe on First Amendment rights, and are largely ineffective in restricting access to adult content.
—Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 20 Sep. 2025
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Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2025
Studios are collectively calling out OpenAI over Sora 2 for generating characters that infringe on their copyrights.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, wrote in a July op-ed for the Sacramento Bee that wearing a mask does not infringe on ICE agents or the federal government’s ability to perform their duties, and therefore the law should be constitutional.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
Free speech advocates argue age verification laws infringe on First Amendment rights, and are largely ineffective in restricting access to adult content.
—Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 20 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infringe
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In August 2024, the Hales Corners Library Board voted unanimously to keep the books in the library's circulation and concluded Lewis-Lane and library staff did not violate library policies.—
Adrienne Davis,
jsonline.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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But Comey's attorneys raised separate concerns that by using those materials at all, the government may have violated Comey's rights -- not just by reviewing potentially privileged information, but also by revisiting evidence obtained by warrants that would now be considered stale.—
Alexander Mallin,
ABC News,
5 Nov. 2025
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In principle, besides fluctuating stars transients can be associated with other things, too, such as extreme space weather events impinging on the upper atmosphere, sunlight glinting off reflective objects near Earth, as well as flaws in the telescope or the imaging process.—
Jonathan O'Callaghan,
Scientific American,
27 Oct. 2025
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There are concerns that tax rises could impinge on already lackluster economic growth.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
15 Oct. 2025
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While breaking a K-pop contract early is typically associated with exorbitant penalties for artists, the group suggested that the label breached contract first, citing alleged mistreatment and mismanagement.—
Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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Disney immediately sued YouTube for poaching him, and sued Connolly for breaching his contract.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
30 Oct. 2025
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Tragically, Putin’s blatant disregard for international law when invading and annexing Ukraine in 2022 is frequently compared to the American invasion of Iraq.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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And yet, the White House doesn’t seem to have committed anything like the number of ground troops necessary to invade a country the size of Venezuela.—
Quico Toro,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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Beijing rebutted the accusation, saying the Australian aircraft had intruded into Chinese airspace.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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China should also agree to hold fewer and smaller military exercises around Taiwan and stop intruding into Taiwan’s contiguous zone, which extends 24 nautical miles around the island.—
STEPHEN WERTHEIM,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Oct. 2025
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And, of course, her new role comes at a time where the beauty industry is prioritizing the same inclusivity SKIMS is entrenched in, turning extended size ranges (SKIMS ranges from XXS to 5X) into shade ranges.—
Essence,
Essence,
3 Nov. 2025
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Their story is different now, but there was no ferocity, no attempt to entrench West Ham’s struggle without remorse.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Infringe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infringe. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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