drive
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Its premium Series X console with a disc drive will now cost £670, when it previously retailed for £500.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
School-district purchases of MacBooks not only help Apple drive sales in the near term, but they also introduce young people to the company’s products at an early age.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
“The scares are not good for everybody else, but sometimes they can really drive business for us,” Cook said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
In essence, Nolan chose a superstar cast to drive home the interpretation of Homer’s saga as a legend about fame.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
She turns the car back on, shifts into drive, and pulls away from the curb.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
“Unfortunately, someone stole a good amount of drives from our office desks this past week,” Sean Berney, a director for original film at Netflix, wrote in a June 25 email, according to the lawsuit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Year-over-year revenue growth for Amazon Web Services came in at 37% for the second quarter as AI drives computing demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Kilgore says the workload can feel easier if you have a curiosity around you as "that's what drives you".
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Around half a year ago, big tech companies were buying back their own shares -- a move that signals excess cash and drives up their stock price.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
“The sound drives some people barmy. Especially my dad.”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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
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
Then, coasting along Florida, we ran into the jaws of another tempest, the which drave us into the bay of Mexico.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert
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
You never found the Lord ought but kind to them 'at 'E drave t' devils out of.
From Windyridge by Riley, W.
Andy Pages then drove in two more runs on a single to right.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Another man told us the sacrifices and uncertainties of being a parent - particularly how his children might turn out - drove him to have a vasectomy aged 27.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Sadi Tribak, a 38-year-old artisan from Tangier, drove to Fnideq with his children as soon as he heard the rumours about the open border.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
For the next two hours, Papin drove down country roads through a post-apocalyptic landscape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
A wind came up and drove the snow.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
Therapies might eventually be designed to disrupt the intense gene activity driven by super-enhancers or prevent tumor cells from repairing the resulting DNA damage.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
Brousse added that the fact it is driven by the "speculative bubble" of AI is also frustrating, "because I'm a graphic designer by trade, so AI has a real impact on my profession."
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
But anyone who has ever met a philosopher or mathematician knows they are not primarily driven by money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Croasmun has driven the old route myriad times, and “I’m not going to say it’s completely haunted, but in a couple of spots you just feel, oh jeez … “
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
It was only when eighty women were packed inside that the door thumped shut and we heard iron bolts driven into place.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The researchers discovered that DNA breaks often appear in the same locations where cancer cells are driving growth-related genes most aggressively.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
"The current technology that will drive, and is currently driving, the transition of European arms must be as scalable as it must be high-tech," Markevicius said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Given he was the driving force behind the decision, he felt it was "wrong to put the onus on my wife" to take a contraceptive.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
For these drivers, alarms, large display screens and automated driving assistance aren’t helpful features.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
“They’re driving down to Leighton Buzzard, right? Please, it’s barely ten miles!”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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