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tide

[tahyd] / taɪd /


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How and why did the tide turn against this sticky substance?

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

By seeking public office, “I was dipping my big toe into a tide of ambition, ego, and irrationality,” he wrote later.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

In Newport Beach, there was a sigh of relief as the high tide began to recede Sunday..

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

The arrival of U.S. forces raised hopes that the tide will soon turn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

They soared high above the poison tide and disappeared into the northern sky.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

The protective fencing around the nesting ground was washed away in high tides earlier this year.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Proposed explanations have included differences in how the Moon's original magma ocean circulated, a massive collision, heating caused by gravitational tides, and uneven development of the lunar crust.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

The National Hurricane Center said the worst of Rachel was over but "hazardous coastal conditions" could persist for days, with the highest waves coinciding with high tides, causing life-threatening surf and rip currents.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

This winter, if El Niño-fueled storms arrive during king tides, it’s likely that California will see significant coastal erosion, flooding and damage, Cayan said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

After a time, there was no feature but the sand, corrugated with the action of the tides.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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 extra cash tided them through the toughest months during the rest of the year.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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

Vetch furnishes essential spring forage for bees before the alfalfa is in bloom, tiding them over this early season so that they are ready to pollinate the alfalfa.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson


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