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
Jordan Blum, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
The invading parasite is a culture of hate and paranoia and sadism — mass hysteria as sanctioned by the government that is supposed to protect you.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
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
The invading particle does not stop there.
—Bill Frist, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The video game challenges players to work together as an elite team of soldiers to save Earth by pushing back invading hordes of space bugs, cyborgs and robots.
—Ben Goggin, NBC news, 12 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
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
Even setting aside its usual criticisms (antisocial, privacy-invading, a bad omen for human connection), the necklace simply didn’t work as advertised.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
The invading parasite is a culture of hate and paranoia and sadism — mass hysteria as sanctioned by the government that is supposed to protect you.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
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
The invading particle does not stop there.
—Bill Frist, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The video game challenges players to work together as an elite team of soldiers to save Earth by pushing back invading hordes of space bugs, cyborgs and robots.
—Ben Goggin, NBC news, 12 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invading
Verb
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While many consider the mammal a nuisance for raiding garbage cans and damaging property, raccoons can also carry diseases, and they probably shouldn't be kept as housepets.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
3 Oct. 2025
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Taco Bell is raiding its vault and bringing fans along for the re-exploration.—
Sonal Dutt,
PEOPLE,
24 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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Giving Bad Bunny the space to spotlight his culture and politics is a bold move for Apple Music, Roc Nation, and the NFL, in light of the anti-Latino sentiment ravaging the country.—
Vanessa Diaz,
Rolling Stone,
30 Sep. 2025
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Three weeks later, the 41-year-old was forced to evacuate her home with her newborn due to the devastating fires ravaging Los Angeles.—
Meredith Wilshere,
People.com,
14 Sep. 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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Teams found a way to negate Forest’s counter-attacking style.—
Paul Taylor,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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And more so than most nights, the Bengals' offensive identity for a long first-half stretch seemed to hinge on attacking quick underneath routes to open up shots to Higgins -- or Chase -- on Moss.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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European authorities have accused Russia of brazen violations of the region’s airspace, including with recent incursions by drones over Poland and fighter jets over Estonia.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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The Department of Agriculture and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have posted on their websites that this is Democrats’ fault, a brazen push into politics that breaks with past neutrality.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Rachel LaMont was an absolute puzzle terminator on Survivor 47, dominating the brain-teasers during the pre-merge stage of the game, and then winning the final hanging bat puzzle immunity contest on her way to becoming the Sole Survivor.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Oct. 2025
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Busch highlighted that with the current Next Gen car, there are three teams dominating the field.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Both were standouts from the 2018 House blue wave — moms with national security credentials, conquering old Republican suburbs.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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It's been part of an incredible run of comp wins for Pope over the last month that also includes five veto victories and conquering the White Locust competition.—
Christopher Kuhagen,
jsonline.com,
25 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Invading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invading. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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