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as in violating
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as in invading
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infringing
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Court records state that on June 4, 2024, X suspended Plummer’s original account for violating its rules against violent speech.—
Wren Smetana,
AZCentral.com,
25 Oct. 2025 -
Brodie, whowas found guilty of violating American sanctions on Cuba in the early 2000s, was denied pardon by former President Joe Biden in 2023.—
Melanie Hicken,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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Moths can also fly in through open windows and doors or find their way inside after invading bird nests in chimneys.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
31 Oct. 2025
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Freddy Krueger thrives in this exact space, invading his victims’ sleep while terrorizing their imagination.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
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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As a result, the Miss Universe Organization revoked her title for breaching contractual obligations by competing in another external pageant before finishing her reign.—
Tabitha Parent,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 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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Workers aren’t necessarily worried about AI impinging on their jobs – a large majority, 80%, view AI technologies, including gen AI, as more of an opportunity than a threat.—
Joe McKendrick,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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While most scented soaps do a mediocre job of masking food smells with harsh, cheap fragrances, Naomi’s scrub neutralizes offending odors with bread-yeast enzymes, then leaves behind subtle, but incredibly luxurious notes of bergamot, black pepper, sandalwood, and ginger.—
Editors of Bon Appétit,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
29 Oct. 2025
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The offending image, this time, was a more recent painting that reimagined the map of India as a naked woman on her knees, city names marking her body.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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This ruling is a chilling step toward unchecked government overreach, intruding on the most personal aspects of our private lives.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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If a relatively unknown freelance journalist was suddenly intruding on their good time, perhaps someone had put him up to it.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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Networks of scams and fraud were entrenching themselves in every aspect of life in today’s India and beyond.—
Snigdha Poonam,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
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Mind you, the entire infantry kit in those days didn't go far beyond a rifle, bayonet, canteen, mess tins, and an entrenching tool balanced with the odd hand grenade.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Infringing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infringing. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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