drive
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The big institutional fund managers who drive the market don’t want them.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
"With Jude, it's all about energy, passion, desire, drive and that's how he's getting his rewards," said Rooney.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
It’s the only social media platform that doesn’t drive up my blood pressure within 15 seconds of logging on.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Women drive the market more often than not,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
I tell her Tūtū needs to go to the hospital but can’t drive herself.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
Johnson's content - followed by more than six million people - drives his followers back to his website, Blueprint, where he sells supplements.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
“Yeah, that’s how I show interest. Through things like this, not who drives to who,” he replied.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
This would eclipse all other major job-cutting drives in the auto industry, notably Detroit-based General Motors's move to cut almost 50,000 jobs in 2009 as it declared bankruptcy.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
As AI wealth drives up home prices, buyers are racing to purchase properties before OpenAI and Anthropic go public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Mostly he drives with his hands and voice, using the matched pairs of horses to wheel, to slow down, or to pull clear.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
It is too bad—I loved oo so— That oo should die so soon, An' to the told, told drave must do This velly afternoon!
From The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza by Fitzgerald, S. J. Adair
And Sir Bors and Sir Ector and Sir Lionel drave three at once at Sir Launcelot and he drave against them—one against three.
From The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by Pyle, Howard
So when all was ready for the encounter, as aforesaid, each knight shouted aloud and drave spur to horse and each charged against the other with all the fury of two wild bulls.
From The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by Pyle, Howard
Winstanley chose him men and gear; He said, "My time I waste," For the seas ran seething up the shore, And the wrack drave on in haste.
From The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades by Various
So when Beaumains and Sir Kay were in all ways prepared, each gave shout and drave forward very violently to the assault.
From The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by Pyle, Howard
First, that drove investment in public space companies while SpaceX lingered in the private market, then sold those stocks to buy SpaceX’s newly minted shares.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Messi has gusto, and Paul Newman drove race cars; nobody is asking men to be quiet little mice.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
They described how it drove into "surrounding farmland where it had collided with fences and walls".
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Renewed Middle East tensions likely drove up oil prices and stoked inflation concerns, reinforcing expectations of a more restrictive monetary policy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
“We jumped in our truck and drove all night.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Copper prices have reached record highs driven by both supply tightness and a surge in demand led by efforts to boost the build-out of AI.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
The drop in May was driven by a fall in durable consumer goods production, with declines in France, Italy and Ireland offsetting other gains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The investments were “broad-based across the platform and driven by ETFs, private markets, active fixed income and systematic equity strategies,” the company said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
The company said the payer mix shift was driven by an increase in uninsured patients who had lost coverage on health insurance exchanges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Last weekend, Ethan had driven us there in his uncle’s pickup.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
“We’ve been out really reaching the healthcare community driving awareness of this medicine. Reception’s been very positive and now we start to turn some of the other levers.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Several forces are driving this fundamental shift in how the economy functions:
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
"Ongoing AI-related investments and continued progress in AI technologies are driving demand for advanced Logic and Memory chips, further strengthening the semiconductor industry's growth outlook," said Fouquet in a statement.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
But they agree on what is driving the risk.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
That same year, once we thought the girls were old enough, we all relocated to Bluefield, Virginia, so Jimmie wouldn’t have to do so much driving.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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