Example Sentences

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Although the zircons formed when tectonic plates were colliding, they have a chemical signature associated with when the plates were moving apart.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024

Gold atoms have 79 protons, and could only be created under very high-energy conditions in which smaller-mass atoms were colliding in close proximity.

From Salon • Nov. 18, 2021

He learned they are valued between $7,000 and $15,000, though that number says nothing about their true value from a time when cultures were colliding and life for the Sioux was changing forever.

From Washington Times • Dec. 11, 2016

“It was almost like my beliefs were colliding with reality,” he says.

From Slate • Dec. 30, 2015

Everywhere contrary ideas, interests, institutions, tendencies, were colliding with inextinguishable rage.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry