infringing

Definition of infringingnext
present participle of infringe
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Verb
  • Her suit accuses the company of violating the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, intentionally inflicting emotional distress, and wrongfully terminating her.
    Irin Carmon, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Cawthorn paid a $17,458 fine to the Federal Elections Commission in April 2025 after violating campaign finance law, The Charlotte Observer reported previously.
    Mary Ramsey April 22, Charlotte Observer, 22 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The tall grass and low brush keeps the snow soft for winter roosting and snow burrowing, but it’s being taken over by tamarac trees invading the edges.
    Andrew Weeks, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The escalation has now resulted in Israel, with Trump holding their hand in this Thelma and Louise-style adventure, invading two sovereign countries (Lebanon and Iran) and brazenly hitting nuclear power plants, prompting Russia to warn the world of a potential nuclear disaster.
    Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • To that point, Warren argued she was harmed by the NCAA allegedly breaching a duty to protect her mental health.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 20 Apr. 2026
  • In one instance, breaching tools were requested after Patel was unresponsive behind locked doors.
    Zach LaChance, The Washington Examiner, 19 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Upgrades will require significant reinforcement of some walls and elevator shafts, though engineers have found ways to do the work by pouring new concrete footings and installing additional steel bracing without significantly impinging on internal spaces or being visible on exterior surfaces.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • Public supporters of the fines agreed that civil procedures against offending landlords were more expensive and time consuming than introducing higher fees.
    Claire Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Use your quick wit when asking questions to avoid accidentally offending anyone.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • There are worse things that could happen than Jimmy Fallon intruding upon your life in the game and being forced to adapt to that.
    Emily Longeretta, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Where that movie was about one man intruding upon everyone else’s thoughts, however, this one is about everyone else’s thoughts intruding upon one man.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The selection of both Mojtaba Khamenei and Zolghadr also indicated that the regime’s hard-liners were doubling down and further entrenching themselves in response to the hostilities.
    Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The war also served as a springboard for battlefield heroes to achieve future political power, partially through entrenching and expanding the role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps -- IRGC -- in the running of the country.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2026
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“Infringing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infringing. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.

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