tide
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The tide of opposition coming from individual investors shouldn’t be surprising.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
"The tide is turning," Sanders posted on X, congratulating Kiros for her "extraordinary victory" over a 30-year incumbent.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
He's facing redundancy from his job at a global cosmetics firm, and the ability to draw down a small amount - effectively a withdrawal from his future state pension - might tide him through.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
U.S. equities were supported by the easing tensions, as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes look to turn the tide on five-day losing streaks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
“They might have caused the poison tide, but I will not leave them to die.”
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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Azar Nafisi, an English literature professor who got her doctorate at the University of Oklahoma, returned to her native Tehran just after the tides of history swept away the shah and swept in the ayatollah.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
His political savvy and technocratic mien positioned him as an indispensable policy expert even amid changing political tides in Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
"So you get the kind of blue tides of the by-the-wind sailors and obviously if they catch the sunlight as well it really sparkles," she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
"We are seeing certain countries holding the process hostage as vulnerable people suffer heat stress, and king tides and storms, drought and famine," he said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
At the highest tides, the sea creeps into basements at the very center of town.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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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 first page was tided: A Pictorial Record of Man's Economic Progress “This is terribly ambitious,” I said.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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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
Why couldn't the Fed simply issue a government guarantee to back Lehman Brothers, tiding it over a temporary run on the bank?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2010
Vetch furnishes essential spring forage for bees before the alfalfa is in bloom, tiding them over this early season so that they are ready to pollinate the alfalfa.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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