infringing

Definition of infringingnext
present participle of infringe
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Verb
  • In their first public statement made outside the courtroom since Kohberger's arrest in December 2022, Kohberger's lawyers have accused a former defense expert, criminologist Brent Turvey, of violating a confidentiality agreement by speaking about the case.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Citizens for Positive Growth & Preservation since 2015 has filed three lawsuits against the city accusing Sacramento officials of violating CEQA.
    Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Hezbollah fighters have also inflicted significant casualties on invading Israeli forces.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Watermelon Pictures, the company founded by brothers Badie and Hamza Ali, earned an Oscar nomination this year for The Voice of Hind Rajab, directed by Kaouther Ben Hania, a film set in Gaza based on the true story of a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed in 2024 by invading Israeli forces.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Earlier this year, a gunman was killed at the president’s Mar-a-Lago residence after breaching a security perimeter.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Israel and Lebanon yesterday agreed to extend a ceasefire by three weeks, though some clashes between Israel and Hezbollah militants have continued, with each accusing the other of breaching the agreement.
    Dennis Romero, NBC news, 25 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
  • Kimmel refused to apologize for offending the first lady, noting the joke drew little initial reaction until the unrelated shooting.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The offending vehicle fled in an unknown direction.
    Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 25 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 2 May. 2026.

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