flow
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Asare says the campaign has often viewed the returning diaspora simply as a means of foreign cash flow, raising prices and negatively altering local economies.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
But even if Strait of Hormuz traffic doesn’t recover past 30% to 50% of prewar levels, “the flow of oil is likely to be sufficient to meet demand,” they said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
Silicon Valley enriched itself with promises that the cyber revolution would mean more freedom and democracy by enabling the flow of information and communication.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Last year, the flow of cheap Chinese clothing forced an Indonesian garment maker to lay off nearly 11,000 workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The meaningless flow of words might have left the audience with the sense that it was incapable of parsing the deep complexity of Morgan Stanley’s bond trading business.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Global liquidity measures the total ease of financing, availability of credit, and volume of cross-border financial flows across world markets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Continued disruption of oil and gas flows threatens to push energy and shipping costs higher, rekindle inflation and weigh on global growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The Russian agriculture ministry announced on Wednesday that it was working to redirect cargo flows to ports in the Baltic and Caspian Seas as well as land routes.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
“As our data flows through the model ecosystem, we just want to make sure that it is safe and secure from a security standpoint, but also an IP standpoint,” Markus said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The longest river in the world, the Nile flows through the length of Sudan, then through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
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When energy prices were low early this year, about $160 million flowed into the largest bucket of New Mexico’s fund each month from royalties paid by energy companies pumping on publicly owned land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Oil-tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of global crude and crude products flowed through in peacetime, has ground to a halt in recent days.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Alongside clips of forests, pink lakes and people working in a village, a voiceover by Lynch says: "Orisha was once a land where magic flowed through our people."
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
These materials — included in “Let’s Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar,” at Roberts Projects through Aug. 22 — reveal an artist whose creations all flowed from the same restless imagination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Mrs. Powell started playing “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” so, like a wave closing in behind Peach, we all flowed after him, ready to celebrate the life that had been Florentine Snowberger’s.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
Crabb and Benesh took a commanding 8-3 lead in the first set with all of the energy flowing on their side.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Optimism is still not exactly flowing through the group though, despite various attempts to scale the poles in Kilmarnock.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The amount of fuel flowing from the Gulf Coast to the West Coast surged nearly sevenfold from February to May.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Infrastructure investments have an important GDP multiplier effect that can foster significant economic growth by keeping basic services available and flowing, Cliquet said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
The bacteria kept multiplying, and the pus kept flowing.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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