drift
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While watching smoke from wildfires in Canada drift over Minnesota, Winker said she has also been monitoring the Spanish fires.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Acquaintances can drift through conversational banalities or choose to engage in meatier, more satisfying subjects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
In a slow, steady drift, which is worse, because you never see it on any single day.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
During this phase, their outer layers churn and gradually drift into space, while the dense cores left behind shrink into white dwarfs.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
I stare at my square of sky until I drift into what feels like the shortest sleep of my life.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
Sea-level rise is measured in millimeters, so tiny drifts in the reference frame prevent accurate calculations of coastal risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Standing beside her hospital bed, his mind drifts to Paris and to Penelope, the aspiring musician he married after falling hopelessly in love.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
The mercury could climb to 38C in Ukraine this week as Europe's deadly, record-breaking heatwave drifts eastward, engulfing the western half of the war-torn country.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Tom Cruise spends the movie running through New Jersey with two terrified kids while ash drifts through the streets and giant alien war machines scoop humans into dangling metal cages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
As Helmuth drifts off to sleep, he wonders about his own future and what he has been put on this earth to do.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Clients have drifted away from Song Oh-soon's fortune-telling village on the edge of Seoul, preferring online AI-powered divination to the centuries-old prophesying tradition still practised there.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
The continent had drifted so far from its official coordinates by 2017 that the government moved the entire nation almost 6 feet on paper to reconcile maps with reality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
It drifted all the way down to 40, which means that only $40 was being spent on puts for every $100 being spent on calls.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Its stock has steadily drifted down in price since reaching an on-the-day high of $176 in June.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Jack nodded, then absently glanced over at the text, where words that May could barely remember drifted up from the ether.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
Search efforts had to be suspended overnight before the family were found still drifting at sea the following day, Thai media report.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Whether from the latest smoke drifting south from Canada or record-breaking fires here at home, the lesson is the same: We have neglected active forest management for far too long.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
In the other essays, the tone is occasionally personal, at times drifting away from the books themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The court heard that Zambada suffered from several health conditions and would need treatment in custody, with Judge Cogan describing him as "drifting towards cognitively impaired."
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Gentlemen were rising now, drifting in a cloud of cigar smoke toward the same threshold where I stood.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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