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  • noun Plural form of incursion.

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Examples

  • Iraqi officials are condemning what they call incursions into Iraqi soil, and all of this adding to the perception that the stability needed to bring more barrels of oil out of northern Iraq, well that might be harder to achieve than it seems.

    CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2008 2008

  • With the help of U.S. intelligence, Iraqi officials are condemning what they call incursions into Iraqi soil.

    CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2008 2008

  • "Unite Here's" Local 11 in Los Angeles has been at the front lines of the fight, dispatching organizers to Pennsylvania, Texas and Arizona to ward off what it calls incursions from Workers United.

    American Thinker 2009

  • India reports a sharp rise in Chinese "incursions" into its territory over the past 18 months, which has prompted new troop deployments and upgrades to fortifications.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2009

  • Gibraltar reviews sea patrol procedures to contain Spanish "incursions"

    MercoPress 2009

  • PROS: Awesome combination of the bureaucracy of government agencies and incursions from the planes by evil entities.

    November 2009 2009

  • PROS: Awesome combination of the bureaucracy of government agencies and incursions from the planes by evil entities.

    REVIEW: The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross 2009

  • Ah, so if the laws of nature allowed for incursions from the spiritual world into ours, then this could happen, we say.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • Ah, so if the laws of nature allowed for incursions from the spiritual world into ours, then this could happen, we say.

    Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010

  • In that system of allusions, of unspoken castes and quarantines, mimetic fiction is associated with propriety, with the status quo defending itself, anxiously, against incursions from the great and wooly Beyond.

    Realism in Fiction 2008

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