as in raiding
to enter for conquest or plunder
a superpower that had a tendency to invade and take over smaller and weaker countries
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Recent Examples of invading
Michael Jerome Plunkett
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Channeling history, Putin has staked a key part of his pretext for invading Ukraine on the claim that neo-Nazi ideology was gaining ground in the neighboring state also viewed as the next potential frontier for NATO expansion.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
Russia has maintained a military occupation in two territories in Georgia — South Ossetia and Abkhazia — since invading and backing separatist movements in 2008.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
During the Second Punic War, the Carthaginian general Hannibal crossed the Alps with his army and his elephants, invading Italy.
—Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Campbell said that over many years of vaccine research, scientists have been able to identify the parts of a virus that are likeliest to activate the immune system and train it to fight back against an invading pathogen.
—Mustafa Fattah, NBC news, 25 Aug. 2025
This guide provides practical advice on deterring geese from invading your property.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025
Just a few decades later, however, historic records describe sand dunes and scrublands invading the green valleys, water shortages, and in 1578 a massive El Niño flood that nearly ended the young colony.
—Ari Caramanica, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2025
Led by Marcel Malanga's father, Christian Malanga, a Congolese political exile who ordinarily lived in Utah, the group of men attacked the home of a senior Congolese politician on May 19, 2024, before invading Kinshasa's sprawling presidential complex.
—Npr's International Desk, NPR, 8 Apr. 2025
Verb
Those remains still saturate the soil of the now quaint hills and regrown forests surrounding the salient that once proved so vital to preventing the invading German forces from reaching Paris.
—Michael Jerome Plunkett
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Russia has been desperate to offset the loss of its European market after invading Ukraine.
—Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Channeling history, Putin has staked a key part of his pretext for invading Ukraine on the claim that neo-Nazi ideology was gaining ground in the neighboring state also viewed as the next potential frontier for NATO expansion.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
Russia has maintained a military occupation in two territories in Georgia — South Ossetia and Abkhazia — since invading and backing separatist movements in 2008.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
During the Second Punic War, the Carthaginian general Hannibal crossed the Alps with his army and his elephants, invading Italy.
—Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Campbell said that over many years of vaccine research, scientists have been able to identify the parts of a virus that are likeliest to activate the immune system and train it to fight back against an invading pathogen.
—Mustafa Fattah, NBC news, 25 Aug. 2025
This guide provides practical advice on deterring geese from invading your property.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025
Just a few decades later, however, historic records describe sand dunes and scrublands invading the green valleys, water shortages, and in 1578 a massive El Niño flood that nearly ended the young colony.
—Ari Caramanica, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2025
Led by Marcel Malanga's father, Christian Malanga, a Congolese political exile who ordinarily lived in Utah, the group of men attacked the home of a senior Congolese politician on May 19, 2024, before invading Kinshasa's sprawling presidential complex.
—Npr's International Desk, NPR, 8 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invading
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Prediction market odds of Israel raiding a Gaza aid flotilla carrying climate activist Greta Thunberg are rising, jumping from less than 1 percent at the start of the month to nearly 80 percent by September 30, according to Polymarket.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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Private equity firms have long cultivated a reputation for raiding Wall Street’s analyst pool, to the point where investment banks had to establish stronger boundaries recently.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Beautiful, not perfect; Alex can be rude, insolent, and subject to wild emotional swings and failures of decorum and logic.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Aug. 2025
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The movie’s startling originality is in its spirit, its insolent ironies.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025
Verb
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But on an evening back in July, inordinate rainfall led to unrelenting floodwaters ravaging the lower level of Pledger’s home.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
3 Sep. 2025
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Spain is deploying 500 more soldiers to fight wildfires ravaging the country, as southern Europe faces a wave of extreme climate events fueled by heatwaves.—
Tasneem Nashrulla,
semafor.com,
17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Gemma reluctantly agrees to rebuild her impudent robot in a new body, and the sequel ends with an explosive showdown between Amelia and M3GAN, who nearly dies in a noble attempt to save Gemma and her niece, Cady (Violet McGraw).—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
29 June 2025
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Fortunately, Snow White’s newfound enlightenment does not deny her the possibility of romance, although princes are now strictly off-limits; her love interest here is a fetchingly impudent bandit, Jonathan (Andrew Burnap), who is leading a scrappy rebellion against the Evil Queen.—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The team has started the 2025/26 season in a less than free-flowing fashion and has struggled to put up the attacking numbers that might be expected of a defending champion.—
James Nalton,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Atalanta comes in with resilience and attacking threats, particularly in transition, but their back line has looked shaky at times this year.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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While earlier incidents against Jewish sites, coming amid the backlash over the soaring death toll in Israel’s conflict in Gaza, sparked a media frenzy around this particularly act of brazen antisemitism, the pigs’ heads did not have the same effect.—
Saskya Vandoorne,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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But in recent years, acts of brazen violence have been the grim drumbeat of a debased national politics.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Indy won the Commissioner’s Cup by dominating those dominant Lynx in the tournament title game.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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Ironically enough the growth and deposits in the DeFi sector continue to trend toward centralization, with three (3) players dominating the space.—
Sean Stein Smith,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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No doubt fans would embrace the arena evolution as simply the next rung on the band’s inevitable, world-conquering trajectory.—
Daniel Kohn,
Rolling Stone,
16 Sep. 2025
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Dealing with the origins of the armor as well as Arago’s previous attempts at conquering the world.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Invading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invading. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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