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tide

[tahyd] / taɪd /


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The arrival of U.S. forces raised hopes that the tide will soon turn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Video footage and photos show several streets under water in Newport Beach, California, through a combination of the tropical storm swells at sea and high tide.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

City crews are pumping out water on the streets, rebuilding beach berms and opening tide valves to help mitigate water intrusion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

The powerful surf exacerbated by the morning's high tide slammed into coastal communities, including Long Beach, where signficiant sections of the boardwalk crumbled under the pounding waves and several homes suffered serious structural damage.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Limber crawled into a tide pool, and she and Roz chatted over the sounds of crashing waves.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

“Coastal flooding and erosion are expected to worsen this morning as the highest waves coincide with the high tides and water levels that are already running well above predicted levels.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

Roughly every 18.6 years and every 4.4 years, the tides are especially big.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

After tides swept away a portion of Long Beach’s historic wooden boardwalk Saturday, waves of saltwater rolled into a yellow two-story oceanfront house on Seaside Walk on Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

While, Rachel is expected to reach the coast late on Saturday, the impact of the storm is already being felt due to high tides in southern California.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Storm tides would frequently submerge their spit of land when the weather turned ugly.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2025

The review concluded that the music of “Ukrainia” did suggest “the colossal wealth of youthful and untouched vitality which had tided over centuries of the most tragic history in the world.”

From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2019

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

The extra cash tided them through the toughest months during the rest of the year.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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

The role wasn’t new for her, but the honor of precedence might have been a good tiding.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021

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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