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tide

[tahyd] / taɪd /


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But it may take more than one good show to turn the tide of the Green Lantern’s reputation.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

With victories on both the political and social fronts, the social tide is turning.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

The company will launch a $1 billion “Future Is For Everyone Fund” to directly support communities around the facilities—giving itself a new talking point to deploy against the rising tide of anti-data-center activism.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

“Flooding of seawater is likely, around the time of high tide, over vulnerable low-lying coastal areas such as parking lots, beaches and walkways,” the weather service office in Oxnard said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

They can sense a storm long before it appears, and the poison tide was like an underwater storm, sweeping through the sea.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

"Is the area safe? Consider potential hazards - too deep or too shallow, currents, tides, underwater objects," it says on its website.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Languid piano tunes give way to surging, keening tides of strings.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

In the tall, slight and blonde athlete, they had found a noble hero to fight against the tides of modernity in service of some older ideal.

From Salon Aug. 9, 2026

Coasts are designed to move - waves, tides, currents and wind are always shifting sand around, while dunes grow and erode naturally over time.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

The body drifted with slow unconcern under the slow canal tides.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

The invention has tided him over as the semester ended this week.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2025

The review concluded that the music of “Ukrainia” did suggest “the colossal wealth of youthful and untouched vitality which had tided over centuries of the most tragic history in the world.”

From Slate Dec. 19, 2019

They then went back to their changing room, showered and changed, tided up, removed the rubbish and left a note for ground staff reading “thank you” in Russian.

From The Guardian Jul. 15, 2018

Co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss tided us over with a Victorian-set Sherlock Christmas special last winter, but we’re ready to see the modern Sherlock take on the mysteriously resurrected Moriarty.

From Time Jul. 20, 2016

The first page was tided: A Pictorial Record of Man's Economic Progress “This is terribly ambitious,” I said.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

She was proved correct, and was tiding up broken statues when spoke to the BBC.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2025

No. It’s an appetizer for better things to come, an amuse-bouche at best — at worst, a placeholder meal of cinematic comfort food, tiding us all over until it’s summer blockbuster season again.

From Washington Post Mar. 1, 2023

That’s not much, but it’s still the best discount available on the classic VR-reimagining of the Capcom classic, tiding you over before the new remake comes out in 2023.

From The Verge Jun. 20, 2022

It was the last get-together of the year, and a warm and caloric tiding for the new one about to begin.

From New York Times Jan. 4, 2013

This is beginning to look like a plan: from maids’ service to something better, with the nursing home tiding me over during the transition.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich




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