as in incursion
a sudden attack on and entrance into hostile territory
the irruptions of the Goths into Italy in the fifth century
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Recent Examples of irruption
But the irruption is an end of a lifetime for some of the owls.
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Dan Kraker, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2025
This is the largest owl irruption in Minnesota in two decades.
—Dan Kraker, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2025
An irruption is a sudden change in population density.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2023
This irruption of violence dovetailed with the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, which began as a social club in Tennessee and then quickly metastasized into a band of white supremacist terrorists.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2023
Data from recent years show a winter poor as this one was followed, two years later, by the biggest irruption in generations, according to Weidensaul.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
The numbers are low for the middle of November, Brady said, and suggest an irruption, in which large numbers of owls move into Wisconsin and the U.S., is unlikely this year.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2021
According to Rauch, the last irruption of snowy owls in the D.C. area was in 2014, when at least four were reported.
—Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2022
The reasons aren’t hard to imagine: the irruption of e-commerce and changes in consumer habits.
—Damian Scalerandi, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
Dan Kraker, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2025
This is the largest owl irruption in Minnesota in two decades.
—Dan Kraker, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2025
An irruption is a sudden change in population density.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2023
This irruption of violence dovetailed with the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, which began as a social club in Tennessee and then quickly metastasized into a band of white supremacist terrorists.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2023
Data from recent years show a winter poor as this one was followed, two years later, by the biggest irruption in generations, according to Weidensaul.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
The numbers are low for the middle of November, Brady said, and suggest an irruption, in which large numbers of owls move into Wisconsin and the U.S., is unlikely this year.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2021
According to Rauch, the last irruption of snowy owls in the D.C. area was in 2014, when at least four were reported.
—Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2022
The reasons aren’t hard to imagine: the irruption of e-commerce and changes in consumer habits.
—Damian Scalerandi, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irruption
Noun
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That said, those incursions into Florida territory proved fruitless, which probably shouldn’t come as a surprise.—
Nick Ashbourne,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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The drone attacks come as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged for the first time that his forces had staged an incursion into Russia's Belgorod region, although one military analyst told Newsweek that the operation was not an intensive one.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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False light is an invasion of privacy that portrays someone in an unfair light.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Hubbard was in Izyum when Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.—
Patrick Reevell,
ABC News,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The woman, who sued under a Jane Doe pseudonym, told jurors that Way allegedly first raped her in a bathroom during a police raid of his home in mid-February 2019.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
1 Apr. 2025
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For now, the Trump administration is loosening rules on commanders conducting military raids and airstrikes, expanding the range of people and places that can be targeted.—
Anna Mulrine Grobe,
Christian Science Monitor,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Irruption.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irruption. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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