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[drahyv] / draɪv /








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But after a briefly promising start against Arizona—a 77-yard touchdown drive to begin the season—things turned ugly.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 2026

"Just because you dress nice, or drive a nice car, doesn't mean you don't need help," Kavita said.

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

A key play in that drive showed the creativity of Klint Kubiak, in his first season as coach of the Raiders.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

Because these whales own so much of the world’s Bitcoin, their large buy and sell orders can drive sharp changes in the price.

From Slate Sep. 20, 2026

My legs wanted to skip down the drive instead of walk.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

These salts perform two jobs at once, acting as both the reaction medium and the catalyst that drives the chemical conversion.

From Science Daily Sep. 21, 2026

Inside a cool, dimly lighted trailer where the quiet is broken mostly by the crackle of radio traffic, Abrin Vasquez drives a 40-ton bulldozer hundreds of yards away.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

Kyle Tucker homers, doubles twice and drives in three runs to spark the Dodgers to an 8-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday afternoon.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

What drives that call option for mortgage bonds is how close current interest rates are to the actual mortgage rate of the homeowners whose loans back the mortgage bonds, and daily volatility for interest rates.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

Mom drives David to school so he can hand in some giant science project on a trifold display.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

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

Cameron also had won clear; but, seeing his brother Michael hard beset, he turned rein and drave in among the smother again, raging like the lion he was.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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

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

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

The news outlet reported that, according to the arbitration award, Tran drove near Normandin-Parker’s body before taking the next exit.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

Collins was telling me this story while he and I drove around the town where he and his brother grew up.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

The currency bloc’s energy trade deficit continued to narrow in July following a sharp deterioration earlier in the year, as the outbreak of conflict in the Middle East drove up the cost of energy imports.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Oracle’s stock has been known to move in step with the ups and downs of OpenAI’s news cycle — and that drove it to its fifth straight drop on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

She studied hard, she drove the beater truck, and she saved the money from her after-school waitressing gig to fund her escape.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

He even tests his mettle by singing fully in English on “Find Us Again,” which is driven by a melancholic, country-music twang and a typical pop-rock crescendo.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 21, 2026

This corner of the chip market has seen momentum in recent months, driven in part by the proliferation of AI agents, or services that can act autonomously on behalf of users.

From MarketWatch Sep. 21, 2026

British supporters have driven the commercial value of this rivalry for years, filling stadiums for both fighters' respective careers and following every collapsed negotiation.

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

It’s not driven by an algorithm, and frankly, it’s a nightmare to navigate, but that’s part of its charm.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

And with each blast of noise, they were driven farther and farther away.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

He also wrote a newsletter on the people driving the AI boom and features on the race to develop AI coding tools.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 2026

He was then able to use that extra money to buy more Bitcoin, driving up its price and giving himself a chance to sell more securities to investors.

From Slate Sep. 20, 2026

"They were driving out for eight hours at a time to find me and feed me on the side of the road," he recalls.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

Long was driving La Serna to a potential game-winning score when he completed a pass to the 24-yard line on fourth down.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

“I heard it in his voice when I talked to him on the phone. Must be tough, something like this driving a wedge between you.”

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz




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