riptide
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Investors felt a slight reprieve on Friday from the riptide that’s been gathering around artificial intelligence and the stock market.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 14, 2026
To empathize with her is not to presume to understand her; it’s to get caught in the riptide of her mysterious pleasures and pains.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025
Exploring the floor of the exhibit hall did not feel like getting pulled along a riptide of other attendees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
A preliminary inquest hearing was told there was a "suggestion" a riptide led to the teenagers' deaths.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2023
Hassan did get up, but he just stood there, looking dazed like a man dragged into the ocean by a riptide when, just a moment ago, he was enjoying a nice stroll on the beach.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
The island is known for its dangerous riptides — particularly in certain areas along the east coast.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
At popular beaches on Lake Michigan, swimmers must navigate crashing waves and dangerous riptides on their own.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
Vacationers’ choruses, even when they bring in welcome counterpoint, are the flattest statements of all, warnings of riptides, notes about the airport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
Part of Singapore's reason for dismissing American pedagogy is "navigational" in a geopolitical sense: Lee Hsien Loong likens his country to a small but doughty craft breasting powerful riptides of global economics and politics.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2021
Somewhere out there in the riptides of gold and light.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
