drift
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For BP, Manifold had been brought is as a tougher chair meant to impose discipline after years of strategic drift.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
Particles could break apart, stick together, drift toward the Sun, or become trapped in certain regions.
From Science Daily • May 26, 2026
Whether Warsh can slow the committee’s drift toward entertaining tighter policy—and whether he even wants to—is far from clear, Lavorgna said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
McInnes said his team needed a siege mentality to deal with... well, he stopped short of spelling it out but you caught his drift.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
His left eye didn’t line up with whomever he was trying to talk to; when he was in social situations trying to make chitchat, the person to whom he was speaking would steadily drift left.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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