drift
Example Sentences
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Perhaps the biggest difference between the two and one that often causes friends to drift apart is children: when one woman has a child and the other doesn’t.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
One reason this works is family offices are often sophisticated investors, and they don’t want to be in a blind-pool fund where managers can drift from a thematic mandate.
From Barron's • May 23, 2026
“The result is a more fragile setup: positioning can drift higher in calm markets, but is increasingly exposed to rapid de-risking, pointing to weaker support and rising downside risk from systematic flows,” Barclays said.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
Smoke from the flames spread throughout the L.A. area on Sunday and was expected to drift throughout the region through Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
She didn’t want to drift too far from land.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing drift
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 4
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