infringing

present participle of infringe

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for infringing
Verb
  • But the remarks follow Russian drone incursions into Poland as well as Russian fighter jets violating Estonian airspace, forcing NATO to intercept them.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Board meetings were also being held in secret, violating state law.
    Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • According to Jeffrey Gottfurcht, co-founder and CEO of Cyber Dive, a software company that enables parents to monitor their child's phone habits and history, parents shouldn't be concerned about invading their child's privacy.
    Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Sustainable peace requires genuine, enforceable guarantees that clearly deter Putin from ever invading Ukraine again.
    Oleksandra Matviichuk, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The bison roaming Yellowstone National Park, an elephant herd thundering across the African terrain in Tanzania or Botswana, a humpback whale breaching off the coast of Hawaii or Mexico.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Jonson’s remarks reflect the growing concerns in the alliance about how to respond to the threat posed by Russia which is accused of breaching the airspace of NATO’s eastern flank members Poland, Romania with drones and Estonia with fighter jets.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • Democrats are apoplectic, accusing Trump of impinging on the Fed’s independence.
    Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Is the streamer afraid of offending hate groups by depicting them as hateful and/or groups?
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2025
  • In New Zealand, murder carries a mandatory life sentence and judges are required to set a prison term of at least 10 years before the offending person can apply for parole, according to the outlet.
    Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Married life has, in the past, come with the couple dealing with others intruding on their joint personal time — like those neighbors who made a noise complaint about them in 1999.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Chinese coast guard vessels accused Manila of intruding into its waters and claimed a Philippine ship rammed one of its vessels.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • People seeking care may become targets of surveillance; entrenching existing patterns where disability, neurodivergence and poverty are not only criminalized— but now automated and scaled.
    Kate Caldwell, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Trump has indicated plans to appoint governors who favor aggressive rate cuts, a move that could offer short-term relief given softening labor data but risks entrenching higher inflation over time.
    Bob Haber, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Infringing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infringing. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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