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tide

[tahyd] / taɪd /


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The tide turned in 2020, when regulations from Beijing seeking to limit excessive borrowing in the real-estate sector complicated Evergrande's ability to make payments.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David answer a few more listener questions, just to tide you over until after a quick break.

From Slate Aug. 20, 2026

But it may take more than one good show to turn the tide of the Green Lantern’s reputation.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

The company will launch a $1 billion “Future Is For Everyone Fund” to directly support communities around the facilities—giving itself a new talking point to deploy against the rising tide of anti-data-center activism.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

When they’d looked after the garden and fished for dinner and checked the beaches for driftwood or bottles or anything else that might have floated in on the tide, Nim had school.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

Every year, California gets hit with those highest high tides roughly around the summer and winter solstices.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

But in the latter half of the 20th century, new research about the dangers of cholesterol and fat in beef began to shift consumer tides toward leaner proteins.

From Slate Aug. 24, 2026

They can be stymied by the wind and tides.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

"Is the area safe? Consider potential hazards - too deep or too shallow, currents, tides, underwater objects," it says on its website.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Doc had to know not only the tides but when a particular low tide was good in a particular place.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

The invention has tided him over as the semester ended this week.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2025

These experiences filled his time on the rigs, and tided over his growing impatience about his university aspirations being placed on hold until this assignment was over.

From Slate Dec. 16, 2023

They then went back to their changing room, showered and changed, tided up, removed the rubbish and left a note for ground staff reading “thank you” in Russian.

From The Guardian Jul. 15, 2018

Co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss tided us over with a Victorian-set Sherlock Christmas special last winter, but we’re ready to see the modern Sherlock take on the mysteriously resurrected Moriarty.

From Time Jul. 20, 2016

It wasn’t enough for Vonetta to say her poem, which was actually Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem tided “We Real Cool.”

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia

She was proved correct, and was tiding up broken statues when spoke to the BBC.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2025

No. It’s an appetizer for better things to come, an amuse-bouche at best — at worst, a placeholder meal of cinematic comfort food, tiding us all over until it’s summer blockbuster season again.

From Washington Post Mar. 1, 2023

That’s not much, but it’s still the best discount available on the classic VR-reimagining of the Capcom classic, tiding you over before the new remake comes out in 2023.

From The Verge Jun. 20, 2022

It was the last get-together of the year, and a warm and caloric tiding for the new one about to begin.

From New York Times Jan. 4, 2013

This is beginning to look like a plan: from maids’ service to something better, with the nursing home tiding me over during the transition.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich




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