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These vignettes — “scenes” would be giving too much credit — eventually drift into musical riffs or spoken-word rants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

If the laser begins to drift away from that frequency, the amount of light absorbed by the nuclei decreases.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

There will also be heavy rain which will drift southwards, but little promise of where it is needed most across eastern England.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

I begin to drift back to sleep, when my eyes shoot open.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

As the icebergs drift, the seawater erodes them from below, until the berg abruptly topples over and continues its journey upside down.

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

Still, the risk isn’t that stocks suddenly collapse, but that money slowly drifts elsewhere, Rizzuto told MarketWatch on Friday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026

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

At the end of each month, the skin color drifts away like dust caught in the wind.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

The smog - also known as the haze - has also drifted beyond Indonesia's borders to neighbouring countries, raising public health concerns.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Over the past few sessions, trading volume has dwindled, while major indexes have mostly drifted sideways.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

It can also rescue a tomato soup that’s drifted too far toward sweetness.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

The mines were covered by soil and roots and appeared to have been placed intentionally in September 2025, rather than having drifted there somehow, he added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

And I like the idea that there will always be someone—or a ghost of someone—beckoning them home, no matter how far they’ve drifted.

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

The government is working with industry "to bring young people back into the labour market and prevent them from drifting into the welfare system", he added.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The haze has prompted school closures in Malaysia and East Timor, with haze drifting into Singapore and as far afield as the Philippines.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

It was another example of stock prices and bond yields both drifting in the same direction, as a global bond rout coincides with the unrestrained momentum of the artificial-intelligence investing boom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

“Without that legal certainty, every rule becomes another lawsuit, every standard becomes another risk, and the system keeps drifting toward a professional model.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Their drifting apart had happened very slowly in the months after Father’s death.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook