drift

While watching smoke from wildfires in Canada drift over Minnesota, Winker said she has also been monitoring the Spanish fires.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Left to drift, it ossifies into a maze navigable only by the already-established.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

In a slow, steady drift, which is worse, because you never see it on any single day.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

During this phase, their outer layers churn and gradually drift into space, while the dense cores left behind shrink into white dwarfs.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

Maybe a girl would approach, and I’d have to mutter an excuse, drift away, and wait in dread for the long walk back, when Haskel and Dovid would tease me mercilessly.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Sea-level rise is measured in millimeters, so tiny drifts in the reference frame prevent accurate calculations of coastal risk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Instead, it drifts with the currents, measuring temperature, the amount of salt in the water and pressure as it moves through the waves.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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

Standing beside her hospital bed, his mind drifts to Paris and to Penelope, the aspiring musician he married after falling hopelessly in love.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

She leans her head back and slowly drifts off.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Over time, he said, that image faded as the reality of life on the island drifted further from the Revolution's promises.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Clouds drifted toward the sun as totality approached.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

As Sunday night turned into Monday morning, and the strains of fiddles and flutes drifted through the city streets, people hailed the success of Belfast's first ever All-Ireland Fleadh.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

What Klein wanted to be an outside pitch drifted in, and Semien connected for a three-run home run that sent the Dodgers to an 8-3 loss Sunday at Citi Field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

But they had no idea how far it may have drifted over so many years.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Events keep drifting like a lost motorist who starts out on the interstate and takes a series of wrong turns until he’s on a one-lane dirt road, getting mooed at.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

They know it crosses the Atlantic as a one-year-old fish, drifting on currents for up to three years to reach the freshwater lakes of Europe.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Whether from the latest smoke drifting south from Canada or record-breaking fires here at home, the lesson is the same: We have neglected active forest management for far too long.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The court heard that Zambada suffered from several health conditions and would need treatment in custody, with Judge Cogan describing him as "drifting towards cognitively impaired."

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

I listen to the sound of the waves lap against the shore and the drifting conversation as Tank and his friends talk and joke with one another.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy