drift

This can include cases in which toxic chemicals drift into neighboring fields or communities and sicken people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

By late afternoon, yields had reversed course again to drift higher—and ever closer to 5%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

When actors understand what they’re saying, audiences tend to catch their characters’ drift while absorbing poetry that’s still at the root of the English language.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Flying lower means less spray drift and therefore less chemicals are needed than in conventional manned crop-dusting, he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

I pinched my inner wrist as I sensed myself beginning to drift off, but it was as though lead ingots had been tied to my chin and eyelids.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

The immense umbrella cloud that forms does not behave like a normal ash plume that simply drifts with the prevailing wind.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Captivated, she drifts in and stands behind him, unseen by him until the final words.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

By then, the chance of rain is greater more widely across the UK as the associated low pressure drifts northwards.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

Elsewhere, the conversation drifts into questions about public-records databases, investigative reporting, grant applications, and the ways institutions classify professional expertise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

The wind howled around each mound and hillock and floe, piling up enormous drifts of snow.

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

Although the system was conceptually elegant and mathematically orderly, it gradually drifted farther away from the natural seasonal cycle it was meant to organize.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

The Bayoumi who Ratchford saw was captured on his never-before-broadcast home movies - throwing a ball around with his family by the Parkwood pool, laughing when it drifted into the water.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Stocks in the continent drifted more broadly, as weakness in oil majors and luxury stocks dragged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Yields have drifted higher along with oil prices over the course of the Iran war, now in its sixth month.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

Smoke drifted in through the open door, and Akira closed it behind them.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Pilots will constantly eye one another in the formation, and warn each other if they start drifting too close to each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

The hazardous smoke has led to an increase in respiratory problems, forced schools to close, and has been drifting to neighbouring countries including -- Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines.

From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026

Their rarity and longevity make them especially valuable to researchers studying glacier retreat, changing ocean conditions and the risks posed by drifting ice in polar regions.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Officially, those buybacks are aimed at “liquidity support”—not driving down yields on new bonds but keeping yields on older bonds from drifting upward just because they are less actively traded.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

A favorable breeze was drifting across the island toward the shore opposite.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig