flow
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The success of Brewis's app, and the creation of others like it, suggests the dramatic recent ebb and flow of Westminster may have inspired a popular new sub-genre.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Silicon Valley enriched itself with promises that the cyber revolution would mean more freedom and democracy by enabling the flow of information and communication.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
That’s due to a massive user base and its ability to convert 90% of its earnings to free cash flow, as advertising also scales up.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Last year, the flow of cheap Chinese clothing forced an Indonesian garment maker to lay off nearly 11,000 workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
“She has a cage crinoline that makes her skirt flow out like an enormous bell.”
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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Heavy rain over several days caused significant flooding along the White River, which flows through Indianapolis and central and southern Indiana.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
RBC commodity strategist Chris Looney has discussed how the recent stabilization in gold flows could be “a function of post-consolidation dip-buying and the market pricing in Iran-related uncertainty.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
“As our data flows through the model ecosystem, we just want to make sure that it is safe and secure from a security standpoint, but also an IP standpoint,” Markus said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The Russian agriculture ministry announced on Wednesday that it was working to redirect cargo flows to ports in the Baltic and Caspian Seas as well as land routes.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Just flows off the tongue, doesn’t it?” said Sydney.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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Oil-tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of global crude and crude products flowed through in peacetime, has ground to a halt in recent days.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
For decades, commercial truck traffic between Windsor and Detroit, the heart of the integrated auto industry, has mostly flowed across the Ambassador Bridge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Ch Insp Kevin Lacks-Kelly, head of the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit, tells the BBC that money had also flowed into the illegal sport through livestreams for gamblers in China on one or two occasions.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
These materials — included in “Let’s Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar,” at Roberts Projects through Aug. 22 — reveal an artist whose creations all flowed from the same restless imagination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The words flowed out clear and easy, even though I trembled hard, I was so scared.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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“With very few exceptions, if things are flowing well, we can wrap something up in a week or two,” Augustin adds about the outfit’s remote recording process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Japan's Meteorological Agency said the most recent deluge was brought by warm, humid air flowing into the country's east that combined with cold air above to make atmospheric conditions extremely unstable.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
It raised the OCR three times earlier this year, with the impact of those decisions still flowing through to the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Infrastructure investments have an important GDP multiplier effect that can foster significant economic growth by keeping basic services available and flowing, Cliquet said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Sometimes snow melts, smaller bodies of water merge and become strong, flowing river water.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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