infringes

present tense third-person singular of infringe

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for infringes
Verb
  • Their lawyers argue that the removal of the books violates federal and state free speech protections.
    Ann Schimke, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The program violates not only the First Amendment but also the Administrative Procedure Act, a federal law about how agencies are allowed to operate, the lawsuit argues.
    David Ingram, NBC news, 16 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • Israel invades Gaza as UN report alleges genocide.
    Sam Tobin, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • To Dalio, that rhetoric is the hallmark of a late-stage debt cycle, before reality intrudes.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The opposite dangers easily slip from mind, until reality intrudes.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • But the reality is that car dependence entrenches debt, ill health, and vulnerability—forms of unfreedom smuggled in under the name of freedom.
    Henrietta Moore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Infringes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infringes. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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