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As climate change intensifies, studies show that salt water will intrude farther up the Sacramento-San Joaquin estuary, further threatening the purity of water taken by public utilities in Contra Costa County and Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2022

And there is one more would-be visitor on the guest list they fear will intrude: the coronavirus itself.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2021

Returning to the courtroom makes it much less likely that extraneous noises, like what sounded like a flushing toilet that could be heard during an argument last year, will intrude.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2021

Reality will intrude regardless, in more ways than one.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2021

His work-day thoughts will intrude themselves in spite of every effort to keep them out.

From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by McCarty, Louis Philippe