drift
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This installation stages basins filled with floating ceramic bowls, which drift and collide in an improvised soundscape that takes its title from the term for the random movement of atoms.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
Expectations for such stocks are so low that a positive earnings surprise in fact is a genuine surprise — and these stocks on average do experience a post-earnings announcement drift.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026
And when my thoughts go idle, they drift to new happy memories that I’ve made all myself: A rainbow over a mountain range after a terrifying hail storm in Texas.
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026
Major bookstores are also embracing the trend as young people increasingly drift away from physical books.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
Shackleton’s only serious concern at that point was that the ship would drift far off course with the moving ice pack, causing even more delay.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Vocabulary lists containing drift
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 4
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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