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Stopping issues such as herbicide drift, where farmers spray chemicals onto their land and through wind it moves miles away and damages other crops, would be another advantage, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Bavuma, who tasted defeat as captain for the first time in this match, allowed the game to drift on day two as Australia extended their score from 124-6 to 390 not out.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 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

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

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

Think of it this way: When you boil a pot of water, water molecules in the form of steam escape from the pot and drift into your kitchen.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

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

Wednesday will start cloudy and wet as a frontal system slowly drifts eastwards.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 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

I do, trying to focus on chewing and swallowing, but even when I attempt to concentrate, my mind drifts.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

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, 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

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

He couldn’t remember when he’d finally drifted off, but it felt like he’d slept a handful of minutes.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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

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

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

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

I even imagine sweet elephant-ear wood smoke drifting into Sagan’s starry sky.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera