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[drift] / drɪft /




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After signing a waiver, strapping on a helmet and paying a $30 fee, audience members can ride along in the passenger seat of a professional driver’s drift car.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

And with labor demand cooling and inflation appearing to drift back toward the Fed’s target but for tariff-driven increases, interest rates looked restrictive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

Expectations for such stocks are so low that a positive earnings surprise in fact is a genuine surprise — and these stocks on average do experience a post-earnings announcement drift.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

She says there is too much opportunity for "drift and delay" in the old system, which meant that "in lots of cases before we were able to provide any support, months could have drifted past".

From BBC • May 30, 2026

Weightless, would they drift away into the great beyond?

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson




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