Incursion
noun
A sudden attack into a place that belongs to someone else.
The incursion into enemy territory was carefully planned
Often appears as...
- border incursion
- sudden incursion
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Disapproving
noun
An act of entering a place or area that is not yours.
The company made an incursion into the smartphone market
Often appears as...
- market incursion
- commercial incursion
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Business
noun
A sudden and typically unwelcome act of moving into a new area.
Environmentalists expressed concern about the incursion into the wildlife preserve
Often appears as...
- environmental incursion
- unauthorized incursion
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Environmental
noun
A sudden attack into a place that belongs to someone else.
The incursion into enemy territory was carefully planned
Often appears as...
- border incursion
- sudden incursion
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
An act of entering a place or area that is not yours.
The company made an incursion into the smartphone market
Often appears as...
- market incursion
- commercial incursion
Usage tips
Business
noun
A sudden and typically unwelcome act of moving into a new area.
Environmentalists expressed concern about the incursion into the wildlife preserve
Often appears as...
- environmental incursion
- unauthorized incursion
Usage tips
Environmental
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Hostile Connotation
Incursion suggests a forceful or aggressive entry into another's territory, often for conquest.
The ancient incursion decimated the defending forces.
Pro Tip 2/2Sudden and Deliberate
Incursions are usually sudden and planned, indicating a swift action rather than a gradual process.
The stealthy incursion caught the guards off guard.
Pro Tip 1/2Hostile Connotation
Incursion suggests a forceful or aggressive entry into another's territory, often for conquest.
The ancient incursion decimated the defending forces.
Pro Tip 2/2Sudden and Deliberate
Incursions are usually sudden and planned, indicating a swift action rather than a gradual process.
The stealthy incursion caught the guards off guard.
Pro Tip 1/2Hostile Connotation
Incursion suggests a forceful or aggressive entry into another's territory, often for conquest.
The ancient incursion decimated the defending forces.
Pro Tip 2/2Sudden and Deliberate
Incursions are usually sudden and planned, indicating a swift action rather than a gradual process.
The stealthy incursion caught the guards off guard.
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Edward Burtynsky:...
and go out and look at the largest industrial incursions in the landscape that I could find. And that became the baseline of what I was doing. And it also became the theme that I felt that I could hold onto, and not have to re-invent myself -- that this theme was large enough to become a life's work,
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Beth Noveck: Demand a...
We might even call them citizens, because they've recently risen up to fight against legislative incursion, and the citizens of these networks work together to serve each other in great ways. But private communities, private, corporate, privatizing communities, are not bottom-up democracies.
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Sam Richards: A radical...
they don't seem to really be supporting democratic countries all around the world. There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd. Oh -- these incursions, these two wars,
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Ugly history: The 1937...
as both a threat to his power and an escape route for political revolutionaries. In a chilling speech on October 2, 1937, he left no doubt about his intentions for the region. Claiming to be protecting Dominican farmers from theft and incursion,
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Alaska Brown Bear...
Bears movements from land and from space these massive bears are on conservationists radar they want to make sure this awesome species doesn't bear the brunt of man's incursions into their land
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Steve Winter & Alan...
this the point of this was interestingly that Tigers could still live here Tigers can live with human incursions when it's limited what Tigers cannot live with is when the
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Defending the ant nest...
The tunnels are narrow and not at all like the open spaces driver ants prefer. Termite soldiers with enormous jaws and heads prepare to check the incursion.
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Ants Attack Termite...
tunnels are narrow and not at all like the open spaces driver ants prefer termite soldiers with enormous jaws and heads prepare to check the incursion
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Ben Katchor's comics of...
But today these improvements seem somehow inauthentic. The click is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life,
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5 Reasons Ants Are...
spaces driver ants prefer termite soldiers with enormous jaws and heads prepare to check the incursion
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Edward Burtynsky:...
and go out and look at the largest industrial incursions in the landscape that I could find. And that became the baseline of what I was doing. And it also became the theme that I felt that I could hold onto, and not have to re-invent myself -- that this theme was large enough to become a life's work,
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Beth Noveck: Demand a...
We might even call them citizens, because they've recently risen up to fight against legislative incursion, and the citizens of these networks work together to serve each other in great ways. But private communities, private, corporate, privatizing communities, are not bottom-up democracies.
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Sam Richards: A radical...
they don't seem to really be supporting democratic countries all around the world. There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd. Oh -- these incursions, these two wars,
Video examples
Ugly history: The 1937...
as both a threat to his power and an escape route for political revolutionaries. In a chilling speech on October 2, 1937, he left no doubt about his intentions for the region. Claiming to be protecting Dominican farmers from theft and incursion,
Video examples
Alaska Brown Bear...
Bears movements from land and from space these massive bears are on conservationists radar they want to make sure this awesome species doesn't bear the brunt of man's incursions into their land
Video examples
Steve Winter & Alan...
this the point of this was interestingly that Tigers could still live here Tigers can live with human incursions when it's limited what Tigers cannot live with is when the
Video examples
Defending the ant nest...
The tunnels are narrow and not at all like the open spaces driver ants prefer. Termite soldiers with enormous jaws and heads prepare to check the incursion.
Video examples
Ants Attack Termite...
tunnels are narrow and not at all like the open spaces driver ants prefer termite soldiers with enormous jaws and heads prepare to check the incursion
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Ben Katchor's comics of...
But today these improvements seem somehow inauthentic. The click is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life,
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5 Reasons Ants Are...
spaces driver ants prefer termite soldiers with enormous jaws and heads prepare to check the incursion
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Ennio Morricone
Italian Composer
De Palma is delicious! He respects music; he respects composers. For 'The Untouchables,' everything I proposed to him was fine, but then he wanted a piece that I didn't like at all, and of course we didn't have an agreement on that. It was something I didn't want to write - a triumphal piece for the police.
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Murray Rothbard
American Economist
Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the State is profoundly and inherently anticapitalist.
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Nathan Wolfe
American Scientist
Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.
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Daniel Lyons
American Writer
With digital attacks becoming rampant, the computer nerds who work for the good guys to thwart such incursions have become the new Navy SEALs - elite commandos who can carry out sophisticated operations on the battlefield of cyberspace.
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Jean Giraudoux
French Dramatist
The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.
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Tariq Ali
Pakistani Historian
Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.
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Peter Shaffer
English Playwright
I'd be willing to bet that any incursion throughout history in which the invading country has proclaimed it is bringing benefits to the conquered is based on a lie.
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Seanan McGuire
American Author
Indexing' is a police procedural about protecting the world from memetic incursions - which is to say, fairy tales.
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Francis Parkman
American Historian
The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.
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Stevie Wonder
American Musician
I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.
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Ennio Morricone
Italian Composer
De Palma is delicious! He respects music; he respects composers. For 'The Untouchables,' everything I proposed to him was fine, but then he wanted a piece that I didn't like at all, and of course we didn't have an agreement on that. It was something I didn't want to write - a triumphal piece for the police.
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Murray Rothbard
American Economist
Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the State is profoundly and inherently anticapitalist.
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Nathan Wolfe
American Scientist
Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.
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Daniel Lyons
American Writer
With digital attacks becoming rampant, the computer nerds who work for the good guys to thwart such incursions have become the new Navy SEALs - elite commandos who can carry out sophisticated operations on the battlefield of cyberspace.
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Jean Giraudoux
French Dramatist
The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.
Quote examples
Tariq Ali
Pakistani Historian
Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.
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Peter Shaffer
English Playwright
I'd be willing to bet that any incursion throughout history in which the invading country has proclaimed it is bringing benefits to the conquered is based on a lie.
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Seanan McGuire
American Author
Indexing' is a police procedural about protecting the world from memetic incursions - which is to say, fairy tales.
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Francis Parkman
American Historian
The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.
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Stevie Wonder
American Musician
I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.
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