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During this time, Sullivan has been playing in a right-sided attacking midfield role, but with the freedom to drift as a central number 10 might and cut inside on his stronger left foot.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

By late afternoon, yields had reversed course again to drift higher—and ever closer to 5%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

"As new data gets fed in, they learn, they adapt, they drift."

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

"We're not trying to predict who you'll fall in love with, we're trying to understand why some couples remain stable despite life's inevitable shocks while others slowly drift apart."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 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

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

The various inversions will include a barrel roll, a zero-g roll and an overbanked stall turn, hinting at a heavily twisted track that will create drifts and swinging.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

On Thursday, the showers will become more widespread as low pressure drifts southwards across the UK.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 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

Her voice drifts a little, and I suddenly wonder if maybe she ever gets tired of caring for all of us.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

Many Germans I've spoken to feel their nation has drifted away from the things that once anchored their identity.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Though I had drifted away from Russian as a teenager, I had grown up speaking it at home in the New Jersey suburbs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Although the system was conceptually elegant and mathematically orderly, it gradually drifted farther away from the natural seasonal cycle it was meant to organize.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

As my mind drifted, the sound of a breeze, created by handheld fans, filled the room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Snow had drifted into his nostrils in a cruel parody of breath, but his ice-filmed eyes were open, staring at something Torak couldn’t see: something that was cradled in the crook of his dead arm.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

“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

Some years, local boaters will push the floating bog to prevent it from drifting towards local bridge.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Their rarity and longevity make them especially valuable to researchers studying glacier retreat, changing ocean conditions and the risks posed by drifting ice in polar regions.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

The pack was still drifting steadily northward, carrying Endurance with it.

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