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[rahyv] / raɪv /




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Though she did not hang out with the bohemians and intellectuals of the rive gauche, there was nevertheless something about her persona that chimed with the romantic existentialism of the time.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2018

You never put your foot in the same rive twice.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2017

“Per le spiagge, per le rive di Trieste,” he began, singing the opening lines of “The Bells of Saint Giusto,” a patriotic World War I paean to Italy’s victory against—and Trieste’s independence from—Austria-Hungary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2015

Theoretically, a Caltech student may ar rive at all the wrong answers on exams, and still get passing marks if his professor believes that his thinking is sound.

From Time Magazine Archive

Winds from our side the unsuiting consort rive.

From The Message by H. M. (Henry Matthew) Brock

But the Mason marriage also suggests an allegory of the West itself, which Stegner saw as perpetually and fatally rived between a destructive, antisocial individualism and a too often stymied longing for stability and community.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2020

And the Sacramento Kings — well, at least the Kings are still the Kings, reportedly rived by front-office drama.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2018

The red, dusty landscape that surrounds his house and studio is rived by a dry creek bed.

From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2018

The battle that Gil cannot leave behind is the war that rived his nation.

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2018

I have seen tempests when the scolding winds Have rived the knotty Oaks.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

Mr. El-Sayed heads into the general election with his party riven into factions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Rumoured to be descended from Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty, Zhu was born in the central city of Changsha in 1928 into a China riven by civil war.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

One of those strengths is a mental fortitude that comes with representing a country that is riven by crisis and humanitarian disaster.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Such policies have manifested differently across China, with harsher tactics applied in areas seen as riven with separatist sentiment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

Trembling, Matthias took refuge in an old beech trunk that had once been riven by lightning.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

However, the game turned on its head in dramatic fashion when Charteris was sent to the sin-bin for stopping a riving maul illegally.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2014

Their two daughters are riving on the West Coast, and their son David, 18, is attending Auburn University in Alabama.

From Time Magazine Archive

Craig DuMez Brookfield, Wis. As an American riving in Brazil, I felt great pride as I listened to Mondale's concession speech.

From Time Magazine Archive

How to make a riving and a new life?

From Time Magazine Archive

Starting in fall 1793, British troops began ar- riving in Saint Domingue to reenslave people and return them to their sugar plantations.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson


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