infringing

present participle of infringe

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for infringing
Verb
  • In September, Nevada’s Bureau of Water Pollution Control fined the company nearly $250,000 for violating environmental regulations nearly 800 times in the last two years, including for spilling untreated groundwater onto public roads and not reporting it to authorities, ProPublica first reported.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Council President Joe LaCava simply gave a hand-slap to Surf Cup for violating the deed restrictions, granting it the right to continue with commercial use.
    U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Now, the abundant mollusk is invading critical infrastructure.
    CalMatters, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Tragically, Putin’s blatant disregard for international law when invading and annexing Ukraine in 2022 is frequently compared to the American invasion of Iraq.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The 70-kilogram robots, capable of carrying up to 20 kilograms of supplies, were seen breaching obstacles and clearing a path for follow-on forces.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Disney immediately sued YouTube for poaching him, and sued Connolly for breaching his contract.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • When no one in the Fortune 500 wants to risk offending Trump, leave it to Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog to take care of business.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • China should also agree to hold fewer and smaller military exercises around Taiwan and stop intruding into Taiwan’s contiguous zone, which extends 24 nautical miles around the island.
    STEPHEN WERTHEIM, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Over the past year, Ukraine dispatched thousands of wheeled ground robots to its frontline military units to help deliver supplies, evacuate the wounded and, in some cases, attack the intruding Russians troops and push them out without risking the lives of Ukrainian soldiers.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • On the hardware side over 10+ million devices have been built around a recovery phrase by default, entrenching a market expectation in which seed phrases are the go-to recovery method, even as some vendors add alternatives.
    Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • 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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“Infringing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infringing. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.

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