drive
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After the crash, a fundraising drive allowed him to post bail and be released pending trial, infuriating the Carter family.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Take “Reinstall,” where she uses the reformatted hard drive as a metaphor for—well, it’s hard to say what, exactly, but it sounds good when she’s singing it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Hurts returned to the game on the next drive and led the Eagles to their only touchdown of the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
By some measures, the number of stocks helping to drive the S&P 500 higher hasn’t been this low since around the peak of the dot-com bubble.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Without asking Leah or Mother, he hired a carriage to drive Maggie to a dressmaker so he could buy her some new clothes.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Steffi Cao argues that we should be wary of the algorithm that incentivizes mindless scrolling, but there is nonetheless something charming about the wacky human storytelling that drives these videos.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
A sustained energy-price shock that drives up interest rates is the latest risk to an expansion that has already faced several, including rapid Fed hikes in 2022 and regional-bank jitters in 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Kang noted the influence of South Korean dramas smuggled in on USB drives, finding them "so refreshing and more credible than North Korea state propaganda".
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Instead, it was Antonelli who won the race, with what will go down as one of the greatest drives in history.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
He shrugged his backpack off his shoulders then pulled out the baggie full of thumb drives.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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Now if the Lord drave the Egyptians into the midst of the sea, and also drave Pharaoh and his host into the midst of the sea, we cannot well see how Pharaoh escaped drowning.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
And they drave him through the town and Sir Launcelot retreated before them toward the castle; for he wist even in his madness that there were friends there who should help him.
From The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by Howard Pyle
No one now uses he spake, and he drave, instead of he spoke, and he drove; holpen is replaced by helped; holden by held; shapen by shaped.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
For each drave spur into steed and shouted aloud so that each charger recovered his feet and fell not.
From The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by Howard Pyle
And unforgiving, unforgiven, A derelict, by tempest driven, I drave beneath the breadth of heaven ...
From Ioläus The man that was a ghost by James Allan Mackereth
Equity concerns drove some universities across the nation to eliminate standardized testing requirements for admission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Those fears initially drove stocks and yields down together, before yields started rising again in June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
A man on a motorbike then saw her and drove her to the camp, she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Deep floodwaters in Bangkok drove thousands of residents into shelters as others scrambled to buy groceries or dry out their homes on Sunday after days of heavy rain inundated markets, roads and residences.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Only those of us who knew her best were aware, beneath all the activity, of the monstrous fear that drove her on.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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This year's ozone pollution was driven in part by record-breaking heatwaves and wildfires that seared Europe and North America and sent smoke well beyond their borders.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Now the stock-market boom, driven by strong corporate earnings and highflying tech stocks, is powering their wealth even further.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
In the years since, dire conditions in Bangladeshi refugee camps have driven those with enough money to make the perilous sea journey to Malaysia in search of sanctuary and work.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Powerful swells driven by recent storms amid a growing El Niño are warming ocean waters, causing sand erosion and drawing animals rarely seen to California’s shore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Anywhere farther than that, they had to be driven by a parent or Hannah.
From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene
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The punishing selloff in bonds is driving Treasury yields to ever more eye-catching milestones, with the 30-year bond yield reaching a 24-year high.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
This does not include lands subject to significant extractive uses, like logging or mining, or disruptive recreation activities, like OHV off-road driving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
The government last month lifted a ban on trucks driving on Sundays and public holidays to help companies impacted by the problems.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
“The move in rates is really what’s driving returns, primarily” within fixed income, with investors pushing bond rates higher as the expanding economy keeps upward pressure on inflation, according to Venter.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
I can make out barely a silhouette, but the man in the driving seat raises a hand off the steering wheel in greeting and Eliza waves back affectionately in return.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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