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as in clashes
to be out of harmony or agreement usually noticeably
the candidate had a reputation as a maverick whose positions often collided with the party platform
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as in slams
to come into usually forceful contact with something
fortunately, I wasn't hurt when my bike collided with that fence
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Recent Examples of collides
Historic power collides with modern reality The King’s Speech merges the historic power and grandeur of Britain with the reality of the modern United Kingdom, a midsized country with an underfunded military, rising debt and waning international influence.
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Pan Pylas, Fortune, 13 May 2026
The timing of the hearing — after several delays — collides with Becerra’s momentum in the governor’s race.
—Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 13 May 2026
The view offers a rare perspective on severe weather systems that regularly develop across the region, where warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico collides with cooler, drier air from the north and west.
—Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 12 May 2026
Knees kneel in grassy altars as history collides with the present.
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 11 May 2026
In the process, the material collides, compresses, and heats up to extreme temperatures, producing vast amounts of radiation.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
The bottom line is this World Cup’s bottom line comes with the tournament’s most expensive tickets ever the world’s most popular event collides with all-American capitalism at its greediest.
—Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2026
Each meteoroid collides with Earth's upper atmosphere at 41 miles (66 km) per second, creating an incandescent trail of shocked, ionized air.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 4 May 2026
His beat is where a cloud dashboard becomes a construction project—where digital demand collides with factories, transformers, chips and cables.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 1 May 2026
Pan Pylas, Fortune, 13 May 2026
The timing of the hearing — after several delays — collides with Becerra’s momentum in the governor’s race.
—Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 13 May 2026
The view offers a rare perspective on severe weather systems that regularly develop across the region, where warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico collides with cooler, drier air from the north and west.
—Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 12 May 2026
Knees kneel in grassy altars as history collides with the present.
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 11 May 2026
In the process, the material collides, compresses, and heats up to extreme temperatures, producing vast amounts of radiation.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
The bottom line is this World Cup’s bottom line comes with the tournament’s most expensive tickets ever the world’s most popular event collides with all-American capitalism at its greediest.
—Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2026
Each meteoroid collides with Earth's upper atmosphere at 41 miles (66 km) per second, creating an incandescent trail of shocked, ionized air.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 4 May 2026
His beat is where a cloud dashboard becomes a construction project—where digital demand collides with factories, transformers, chips and cables.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 1 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for collides
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Avoid going into crisis mode as the moon clashes with Pluto.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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Azure Blue Azure blue also clashes with the warm, 3000K, soft white bulb that most of us prefer for a relaxing soak.—
Natasha Bazika,
Martha Stewart,
9 May 2026
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Now, however, the team behind the new research believes the events are caused when a compact stellar remnant, like a black hole or a neutron star, slams into the universe's hottest class of star, massive stellar bodies called Wolf-Rayet stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
8 May 2026
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In other words, automatic registration slams the courthouse door on women, but not on men, because registration is its own injury.—
Wendy Murphy,
Boston Herald,
27 Apr. 2026
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In an oppositional reading of a media text, the audience comprehends that the message conflicts with or contradicts their personal experiences of society.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
5 May 2026
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Intuitive Surgical also conflicts with our recent initiation of Johnson & Johnson, which is seeking to enter the robotic surgery market.—
Paulina Likos,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2026
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Alas, Shao Khan smashes Cole’s head with a hammer, Gallagher style, and shoves his body into a vat of acid.—
James Grebey,
Vulture,
12 May 2026
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Maybe a sleek ship is being chased by enemy fighters through a dense asteroid field, and one of them smashes into a massive space rock and is explosively atomized.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
8 May 2026
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The 2027 Ram 1500 SRT TRX will start at $99,995, excluding a mandatory $2,595 destination fee that bumps the price to $102,590.—
Michael Wayland,
CNBC,
1 Jan. 2026
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A day when the Stanley Cup years finally ride the synaptic road back to long-term memory and the brain finally bumps the past for the present.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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Teal'c takes out some frustrations on an unlucky grunt who bangs him with a door at the start of every time loop, and O'Neill gets to (temporarily) sample the will-they side of his will-they-won't-they relationship with Carter.—
Daryl Baxter,
Space.com,
14 Apr. 2026
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Another bangs his head against the wall after expressing suicidal thoughts.—
Morgan Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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The device crashes into the asphalt, with no explosion.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
18 May 2026
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Cast Away tells the story of FedEx troubleshooter Chuck Noland (Hanks) who becomes stranded on a deserted island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
18 May 2026
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He wasn’t invited to the combine this winter and drew knocks from some evaluators for his lack of length and his inconsistency as a pass rusher.—
Dan Wiederer,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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Temperatures will be near 81 degrees on Monday, and then turn cooler on Tuesday through Thursday after a cold front knocks them back into the mid- to upper 60s.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
1 May 2026
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“Collides.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collides. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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