infringing

present participle of infringe

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for infringing
Verb
  • The Kansas City Chiefs will get a massive reinforcement on Sunday, with wide receiver Rashee Rice ready to play his first game of the year after serving a six-game suspension for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy.
    Jon Conahan, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The investigation revealed Donald had been accused of assault Jacob on at least two other occasions earlier this year, violating a protective order against him on both occasions.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Licensing officials also investigated educators accused of grooming behaviors like flirting with children, spending non-school time alone and isolated with students, or invading students’ personal space by rubbing their shoulders, thighs and lower backs.
    Danielle DuClos, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Additionally, the invading trees and shrubs also compete with prairie plants for light, water, and space, often pushing the grassland plants out of the way and diminishing the habitat options available to animals that depend on native plants.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement There are no clear penalties defined for any side breaching the peace.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The products range from bulk explosives to landmines and small breaching charges, including C4.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • That is, a non-central process that allows the immune system to strike a delicate balance between being appropriately responsive and aggressive toward intruding germs or foreign dangers while also not running amok.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 6 Oct. 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 21 Oct. 2025.

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