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plural incursions
An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion. quotations examples
Fascinating though the journey is to the traveller, for many years this section of the line was a source of considerable anxiety to the maintenance engineers, and on more than one occasion landslips and incursions of the sea resulted in the railway being closed for several days.
1947 January and February, H. A. Vallance, “The Sea Wall at Dawlish”, in Railway Magazine, page 18