as in collisions
a forceful coming together of two things
the impingement of the hailstones on the metal roof was making quite a racket
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But demonstrating this beyond a shadow of a doubt proved in some respects more challenging than actually creating the elusive plasma itself, with the case for success strengthening as RHIC’s numbers of collisions soared.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
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Sports already take severe head impacts and concussions seriously, with protocols to remove players after collisions.—
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6 Feb. 2026
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Jury selection also underscored how widely the impacts of social media — both good and bad — are felt among disparate groups of people.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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Climate cooperation was also predicted to weaken as the impacts of temperature changes reverberate.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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That said, the government has a decades-old playbook on how to get workers through economic shocks.—
Josh Tyrangiel,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 2026
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That is, a country’s economy was much more likely to be impacted by shocks to nearby countries than by shocks in faraway countries.—
Josh Ederington,
Fortune,
8 Feb. 2026
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Simons also gave Boston timely jolts of off-the-bench scoring.—
Zack Cox,
Hartford Courant,
3 Feb. 2026
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Elsewhere, jolts of intensity come from human hands turning round knobs in real time.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Impingements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impingements. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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