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While watching smoke from wildfires in Canada drift over Minnesota, Winker said she has also been monitoring the Spanish fires.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

By Tuesday the low-pressure system will drift slowly north-eastwards, bringing another day of wet weather to northern parts of the UK.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Acquaintances can drift through conversational banalities or choose to engage in meatier, more satisfying subjects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

In a slow, steady drift, which is worse, because you never see it on any single day.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

If I wanted to persuade you of continental drift, for example, I would point you to the classic papers on paleomagnetism and we could then go and make our measurements in the field.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

By then, the chance of rain is greater more widely across the UK as the associated low pressure drifts northwards.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

Anything that drifts too close to the dreaded category of “dump and stir,” a phrase that has done real reputational harm to a perfectly sensible technique?

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

It sees a risk that the full-year margin drifts towards 5%, but that could still see it rank above other European automakers for 2026 overall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Finally Mr. Van Deusen drifts back into the room, sipping his fresh coffee.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

Clients have drifted away from Song Oh-soon's fortune-telling village on the edge of Seoul, preferring online AI-powered divination to the centuries-old prophesying tradition still practised there.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

As Sunday night turned into Monday morning, and the strains of fiddles and flutes drifted through the city streets, people hailed the success of Belfast's first ever All-Ireland Fleadh.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Clouds drifted toward the sun as totality approached.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

It drifted all the way down to 40, which means that only $40 was being spent on puts for every $100 being spent on calls.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

The day dawned clear, but by the time I got the flag set a cold mist had drifted across the island.

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

Newton notes the Russell 3000 McClellan Summation Index — a breadth indicator — is sitting near its June peak and while, drifting sideways, hasn’t nosedived, which is often the precursor to a bigger downturn.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

Officially, those buybacks are aimed at “liquidity support”—not driving down yields on new bonds but keeping yields on older bonds from drifting upward just because they are less actively traded.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

The bodies were now being recovered further away from the scene of the sinking, some of them drifting towards Zambia, the Herald reports.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Events keep drifting like a lost motorist who starts out on the interstate and takes a series of wrong turns until he’s on a one-lane dirt road, getting mooed at.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

I turned around to look for his brother and saw him drifting a few feet away from me.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall