infringes

present tense third-person singular of infringe

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for infringes
Verb
  • Several lawsuits have been filed in state courts arguing that the mid-decade redistricting violates the Missouri constitution.
    Connor Greene, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
  • If Butler violates any terms, the court could enforce his full 78-year sentence.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • When a new and potentially harmful germ invades our immune system, the body reacts by raising its core temperature.
    Erika Edwards, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2025
  • In contrast, prostate cancer tumors will often have an irregular shape with blurred edges as the cancer invades surrounding tissue.
    MD Published, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, seawater intrudes like an advancing army toward thicker ice, which rests on bedrock that slopes inward toward the bowl-like center of the continent.
    Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
  • To Dalio, that rhetoric is the hallmark of a late-stage debt cycle, before reality intrudes.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • With each passing day, Hamas further re-entrenches its control.
    Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
  • 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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“Infringes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infringes. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.

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