tide
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But it may take more than one good show to turn the tide of the Green Lantern’s reputation.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
With victories on both the political and social fronts, the social tide is turning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 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
“Flooding of seawater is likely, around the time of high tide, over vulnerable low-lying coastal areas such as parking lots, beaches, and walkways,” the weather service office in Oxnard said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
They were staring down at the poison tide.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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"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
In the tall, slight and blonde athlete, they had found a noble hero to fight against the tides of modernity in service of some older ideal.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Scott-Hays added that some visitors "have no idea on tides, so there needs to be an educational element to all of this".
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
And as predictably as the tides, a wine-dark sea of merch has risen up around the release: T-shirts, videogames, souvenir popcorn buckets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
He enjoyed listening to Nately, whose maudlin, bittersweet lamentations mirrored much of his own romantic desolation and never failed to evoke in him resurgent tides of longing for his wife and children.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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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
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
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
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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