ebb
Example Sentences
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Worse than that, if left in that time period for too long, they would inevitably become Butterflies themselves, meddling with the ebb and flow of time by their very presence.
From Literature
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Since national defense cannot tolerate downtime, readiness spending tends to persist even when procurement ebbs.
From MarketWatch
The central bank’s analysis, published Thursday, also suggests that momentum behind buying Canadian remains solid with no sign of ebbing.
We are ourselves seeing cyber threats, with ebbs and flows, but certainly at a much higher degree of intensity.
There are signs this is more than the normal ebb and flow of executive reshuffling.
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