encroachment
AmericanOther Word Forms
- nonencroachment noun
Etymology
Origin of encroachment
1425–75; late Middle English encrochement < Anglo-French. See encroach, -ment
Example Sentences
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The only visible law enforcement presence is a police car rammed across the driveway, signaling the limits of encroachment, like an invisible wall in a video game.
From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026
The National Union of Healthcare Workers, which represents Kaiser employees, has been among the earliest to recognize and respond to the encroachment of AI into the workplace.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026
Is the show a metaphor about the encroachment of AI?
From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025
Analysts and officials said India’s goal isn’t to catch up to China’s vast infrastructure buildup but to create enough of a deterrence to make any further Chinese encroachment more costly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025
During the first three decades after the Treaty of Paris was signed, allied Indigenous nations in the Ohio Country and the southern states were involved in several struggles to resist settler encroachment.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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