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While watching smoke from wildfires in Canada drift over Minnesota, Winker said she has also been monitoring the Spanish fires.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

In a slow, steady drift, which is worse, because you never see it on any single day.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

During this phase, their outer layers churn and gradually drift into space, while the dense cores left behind shrink into white dwarfs.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

The actual phrasing he used was far ruder than that – but you get the drift.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Then they heaved themselves up, staggered away from the ice cliffs, and collapsed in a drift .of powdery snow.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

By then, the chance of rain is greater more widely across the UK as the associated low pressure drifts northwards.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

Elsewhere, the conversation drifts into questions about public-records databases, investigative reporting, grant applications, and the ways institutions classify professional expertise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

It sees a risk that the full-year margin drifts towards 5%, but that could still see it rank above other European automakers for 2026 overall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Standing beside her hospital bed, his mind drifts to Paris and to Penelope, the aspiring musician he married after falling hopelessly in love.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

There were rumors of seven-foot drifts in the Smokies.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

That meant the two-time world champion drifted to 19th place, 780 points behind O'Connor.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Sadly or maybe justly, the Dodgers have drifted into ineptitude of late, while the Tarik Skubal-less Tigers have suddenly gotten hot and leapfrogged several teams to move into the last wild-card slot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

Clients have drifted away from Song Oh-soon's fortune-telling village on the edge of Seoul, preferring online AI-powered divination to the centuries-old prophesying tradition still practised there.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

He drifted into Harlem theatrical work and met a fellow 19-year-old who would become a lifelong friend—Sidney Poitier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

I’ve told them we’d met different friendship groups when they put us into new sets and that we just drifted apart.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Events keep drifting like a lost motorist who starts out on the interstate and takes a series of wrong turns until he’s on a one-lane dirt road, getting mooed at.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The spent stage was left drifting in a long, looping orbit that swung out towards the Moon and back again.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Now on Wednesday, scientists expect the Moon will experience yet another collision, this time from a drifting SpaceX rocket that has been travelling at around 2.43 kilometres per second, or about 5,400mph.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Whether from the latest smoke drifting south from Canada or record-breaking fires here at home, the lesson is the same: We have neglected active forest management for far too long.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Powers had tossed aside the hollow silver dollar while drifting down to Soviet soil—he was going to survive this ordeal, if possible.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin