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From the ’90s originals to the series’ resurrection in recent years, the Doom games have always been about using constant, zippy motion to dodge through a sea of relatively slow-moving bullets, maintaining your distance while firing back at encroaching hordes of varied monsters.
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ArsTechnica, 9 May 2025
However, there are simple steps that will keep the bears from encroaching on subdivisions and presenting a danger to humans.
—Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2025
And to protect the swamp from encroaching mining efforts, the boundaries have been expanded by 22,000 acres.
—Caroline Eubanks, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
As housing developments are built and expanded, more people encroach on tick habitats.
—Seth Roeser, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2025
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ArsTechnica, 9 May 2025
However, there are simple steps that will keep the bears from encroaching on subdivisions and presenting a danger to humans.
—Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2025
And to protect the swamp from encroaching mining efforts, the boundaries have been expanded by 22,000 acres.
—Caroline Eubanks, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
As housing developments are built and expanded, more people encroach on tick habitats.
—Seth Roeser, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for encroach
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Amid President Trump’s threats to start a global trade war, invade Greenland, seize control of the Panama Canal and annex Canada, this story has gone virtually unnoticed: Cuba is going through its worst economic crisis in decades — maybe since the 1959 revolution.—
Andres Oppenheimer,
Miami Herald,
5 June 2025
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The conflict began in 2022 when Russian forces invaded Ukraine.—
Brett Samuels,
The Hill,
4 June 2025
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Storing Everything In Cardboard Boxes Insects easily creep into cardboard boxes, which also don't keep moisture out.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
6 June 2025
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While this is still true, polls show that Trump's approval rating is creeping up among women.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 June 2025
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But the line snaking down an alley and up the main road is an indicator that this is the place to spend a raucous night all year long.—
Cameron Sperance,
Travel + Leisure,
7 June 2025
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Maybe as battery tech evolves, the DRAGON drone will return as the envy of all drones, snaking its way through the skies, turning on and off industrial water valves everywhere.—
Joe Salas
May 31,
New Atlas,
31 May 2025
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“Encroach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encroach. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.
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