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infringing

Definition of infringingnext
present participle of infringe

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for infringing
Verb
  • Israel and Hamas have accused each other of violating the ceasefire.
    Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The 22-year-old woman died while in police custody after being detained for allegedly violating dress codes.
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 11 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • So what’s the point of invading Venezuela?
    U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Her father was detained by invading forces during the Bay of Pigs.
    Eyder Peralta, NPR, 5 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • All this provides valuable data for archaeologists to map the interior without risking breaching the tomb’s seals.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
  • In Europe, Google is facing a probe for potentially breaching European Commission rules by using online content for AI purposes.
    John Kell, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • In principle, besides fluctuating stars transients can be associated with other things, too, such as extreme space weather events impinging on the upper atmosphere, sunlight glinting off reflective objects near Earth, as well as flaws in the telescope or the imaging process.
    Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Workers aren’t necessarily worried about AI impinging on their jobs – a large majority, 80%, view AI technologies, including gen AI, as more of an opportunity than a threat.
    Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Its safety initiatives, which about 15% of its staff work on, include using machine learning to identify and remove offending content and equipping community moderators to uphold its policies, its website shows.
    Bloomberg, Oc Register, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The offending artwork was taken down on Monday, the same day WaPo notified the agency.
    Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 7 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Rewatching bits and pieces of the director’s filmography this week, the ongoing investigation into the killings of Reiner and his wife kept intruding.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s long-standing Research for Civil Security program, the system uses an extendable net to safely capture intruding drones without causing debris or collateral damage.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 25 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Recent developments in Sudan's bloody civil war have left one of Africa's largest nations split in two, entrenching two factions that have both been accused of widespread abuses and threatening to spread further instability across the region.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • On the hardware side over 10+ million devices have been built around a recovery phrase by default, entrenching a market expectation in which seed phrases are the go-to recovery method, even as some vendors add alternatives.
    Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Infringing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infringing. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.

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