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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

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

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

But analysts don’t expect the drift toward higher prices—like the hikes Apple made when it released its new iPhone lineup this month—to be temporary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The sounds of blues music and chatter drift outside, along with the aroma of fried foods.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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

A showery low will edge closer to southern and south-western Britain as it drifts out of France as early as Monday night.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

The waxy scent that drifts up the escalators at the Los Angeles Central Library is immediately familiar to anyone who remembers the Mold-A-Rama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Eventually, Simon drifts over, hooking an arm around my shoulders.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

“Women’s favorability dipped during and right after the tournament before recovering in September, and their purchase consideration drifted down slightly across the whole window. If the marketing broadened Adidas’s appeal, it landed more with men.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

The haze has drifted into neighbouring Singapore, Malaysia and East Timor, which said it would shut schools nationwide for three days from Thursday, and as far afield as the Philippines.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

A murmur of voices drifted over toward them, from a canoe floating on the water.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

As he tried to check if the local health centre was open in the middle of the night Sandra's pain left her and she started "drifting off".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

This emerging language, known as “neuralese,” is drifting toward incomprehensibility because training an AI to arrive at the correct answer incentivizes them to use representations that span languages, mathematics and other disciplines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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

“Why should I?” she said stiffly, her hand automatically drifting to its weight in her pocket.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny