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flow

[floh] / floʊ /




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Analysts attribute the rebounding flow of oil to three key factors:

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

These changes could interfere with blood flow and create conditions that encourage neurodegeneration.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

They tell clients in a note that Commonwealth Bank and ANZ were the strongest of the majors in business lending, with the former capturing 28% of flow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

In all those cases, households had to make the first move and establish an account before money could flow in.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

“One hundred to four hundred yards. Depends upon water flow whether it’s more or less.”

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

OPEC+’s monitoring committee, which meets Sunday, might leave production policy unchanged while security around Middle East supply flows remains uncertain, the analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The recovery has been supported by restored flows through Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline and greater use of alternative export routes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

“AI agents have the ability to drive significantly higher communications flows, unlocking incremental demand,” TD Cowen analyst Derrick Wood wrote in a note to clients last week.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

His comments on the sidelines of G20 talks come as Russian and Ukrainian strikes targeting Black Sea ports have been wrecking and idling agricultural export capacity more quickly than trade flows can recover.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

I'd choose something simple—a shade of red to match Maman's hair, a high waist with a cream waist-sash, and a sweeping skirt that flows out like a silk river behind me.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

The investment boom inspired by the artificial-intelligence build-out is increasing competition for investment capital that might have otherwise flowed into the Treasury market.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Earlier studies, including research led by Stern, had proposed that liquid once flowed on Pluto in the distant past.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

After plummeting around 4,000 feet, the ice turned into a debris-laden flood that flowed into the Lhende Khola, a river coming down from Tibet, and later joined with the Trishuli river.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Once the words came, they flowed cinematically, telling a coast-to-coast coming-of-age story fit for the big screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The water flowed faster and faster, and soon it was running at a furious speed.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

Yang compares the behavior to water flowing over a waterfall.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

The volume of oil flowing from the Middle East region has almost returned to pre-war levels, data shows, despite the continued restrictions Iran is placing on vessels attempting to travel through the Strait of Hormuz.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Over the last few months, parts of the river have continued flowing, while other stretches dried up beside alfalfa fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Roughly 4 million barrels a day—around 4% of global supply—were flowing through it before the pipeline outage earlier this month, analysts estimate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Nhamo couldn’t remember the tragedy, yet somewhere inside her was a memory of flowing, spotted skin and terrible claws.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer




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