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drove

[drohv] / droʊv /


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When they drove toward the “blood-curdling screaming,” they discovered it was a fighting couple, who apparently didn’t need any assistance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

One day, Lamarco drove to Carnegie Mellon for a stock-picking contest where he would compete with Ivy Leaguers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Falling birth rates, cautious consumers, competition and $881 million in debt drove the children’s apparel retailer to file for Chapter 11 protection on Sunday.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

"Though energy prices moderated as expected, it was food inflation that drove the forecast miss of last month's headline CPI," Oxford Economics said in the note.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, after Mom drove Bat home from school, she had to go back to work for a couple more hours.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

This year voters turned out in droves, especially young Latinos, the district’s largest voting group.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

Nvidia's share price has fallen but has not tanked spectacularly, suggesting shareholders are not abandoning the company under his stewardship in their droves either.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Voters turned out in droves, and named democracy as one of their primary concerns, along with corruption, for their votes.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

To win Sunday, he must rekindle the magnetic hold he once had on voters who turned out in droves for his everyman appeal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

But the next day people began arriving in dozens, then in droves, some from Trokorpe and nearby villages, disheveled, distraught, grown men sobbing like babies.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

Cattle that have been two weeks at grass may, however, be safely droved.

From Cattle and Cattle-breeders by William M'Combie

In a practice known as turkey droving, thousands of birds, some wearing tiny leather boots, were herded through fields and along rough roads on a three-month journey.

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025

The Captain's Road, which links two droving inns, Tibbie Shiel's and Tushielaw, was one of the earliest metalled roads connecting the Ettrick and Yarrow valleys.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2022

Gunbar, a dusty village with fewer than 100 people, is typical of the stops along the droving route of rutted, red dust roads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2014

I simply drove into the subject and when it comes to droving into a subject a Durante admits no peers.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was at the ford of the Clachlands Water in a tempestuous August, that I, an idle boy, first learned the hardships of the Lammas droving.

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan


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