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Morning Consult said Nike’s favorability has shown a downward drift across the window beginning before the tournament and through September.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

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 drift off, and a wave of thoughts hits me, threatening to pull me into the undertow and drown me.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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

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

As the bus lumbers through town, Sasha puts down the book and drifts into sleep, skirt draped over the edge of the seat.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

Instead, he entered a management-training program at Inland Steel and moved to East Chicago, Ind., where coke dust from a nearby steel mill drifted into the family home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 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

After perhaps half an hour of visiting among the tables, the foreman reminded us that we had a day’s quota to meet and people drifted back to their places.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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 bank continues to see a risk that guidance will be changed to a margin of more than 5%, drifting down from the current guide of the low end of around 5.5%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

“It would somehow feel thin and hollow, and people may not know why their attention is drifting, but it would drift,” MacFarlane said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 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

We were drifting quickly away from the shore.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell