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drive

[drahyv] / draɪv /








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Its return as a significant threat illustrates how difficult it can be to predict which infectious disease will drive the next major outbreak.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

The U.S. economy is also growing fast enough, he said, to drive up inflation through the normal demand channels: consumer spending and business investment, especially the boom in artificial intelligence.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

For heavily themed intergalactic-inspired dishes, you need to drive to Anaheim where vendors at Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge sell Grogu cookies and Bantha milk.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

Megan, 18, opted for a trainee instructor to save money but said learning to drive had still cost her more than £1,000.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

After reading about Joey’s bravery during the war and her arrival in the US, he’s inspired to start a fund drive called Joey’s International Leprosy Fund.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

That chemical potential effectively drives the newly formed atom out of the liquid.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 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

The pursuits that occupy leisure hours can benefit from the same focus that drives success in the workplace.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

For safety, Kateryna always travels with her partner, Slava, who drives.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

The servers continued to work, their fans humming, drives periodically spinning and then stopping.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

Their thoughts were of the western main, Of moor, and dog, and gun, When that strange shape drave suddenly Betwixt us and the Sun.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 19th 1893 by Various

Thither rode M. Cane della Scala with his forces, and drave them out thence with great loss.

From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Giovanni Villani

God had given her to a rough old fellow like him, one who had endured the trampling of the threshing floor as the car oxen drave round.

From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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

Right nobly did he entertain me, and drave me not from his house, for all that he had been stricken by such sorrow.

From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various

Around 8 the next morning, Jeramy’s wife drove him to a local police department so he could talk to the officers about the home invasion.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

The 49ers stopped Stafford short of the goal line, and the 49ers subsequently drove 99 yards for a touchdown.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

Owens said in a recent Medium post that the online vitriol drove her to an eating disorder.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 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 didn’t push, and we drove home to the sound of the wipers wiping away the misty fog that was rolling along the ground.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

The 20th-century advance in American pharmaceutical science was driven by a cohort of devoted researchers working with ambitious drug companies.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

But there’s surprisingly little evidence that data centers have broadly driven residential electricity inflation so far.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

Police bodycam footage captured the moment the officer then runs to a red Nissan Micra driven by an un-named female driver and tells her: "I need a lift."

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

She’s not a good flyer and has always driven.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Elisha called this private upper floor “a sort of sanctuary; a retreat to which we are driven by mischief-making eyes and tongues. There, like wounded deer we escape the hunters.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Gelder said the reason for that could be that China, the world’s largest crude importer, wants to avoid driving up the price of crude.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

WSJ | Buy Side: We evaluated costs from major auto insurers to find the cheapest car insurance for a variety of driving records.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

“Sorcerer” is about a group of fugitives driving a load of dynamite across the jungle; “The Weight” follows a group of Depression-era convicts transferring gold through the forest.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

A Metropolitan Police officer accused of causing the death of a pregnant woman by dangerous driving has denied the charge.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

He keeps driving, past the pizza place, the community center, and the library.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison




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