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drive

[drahyv] / draɪv /








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It's still just horrible to drive, but I'm doing a better job at just understanding this, relaying this to my team, figuring stuff out.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

"I don't know if we'll ever drive IndyCars around the nation's capital again, so the fact we're doing it is a spectacle," US racer Josef Newgarden said.

From Barron's Aug. 23, 2026

He’s more wary of buying from independent sellers in online marketplaces: Amazon.com may set the rules, but they aren’t the ones wiping the drive, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

He completed eight of 12 passes for 73 yards and led a touchdown drive.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

While I’m fiddling with the radio, a traffic report comes in about how backed up the street that we normally drive on is.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

It was very likely caused by the whiplash he’s endured by tracking all of those line drives whizzing past his ear.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

Economists inside and outside the Fed disagree on what drives inflation surges, and how best to watch for and respond to them.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

The top four teams did not have drives available to him, which left him with options only to move to other teams in the sport's midfield.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

"Usually, it takes more power to store more information. Our device, however, consumes 100 times less power and the storage capacity is higher than traditional storage devices, like flash drives."

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

She drives over to the campus gym, and I follow her inside the building and down a hallway lined with plaques that list members of the Hempstead College Athletics Hall of Fame.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

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 Howard Pyle

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 Howard Pyle

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

Then Sir Gareth laughed, and said, "Say you so?" and therewith he drave past all those esquires and Lynette and the dwarf went with him and no one dared to stay him.

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

Early in the first quarter, she drove for a basket then immediately stole the inbound pass and scored again.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

The Sunday People reports the "wrong way crash horror", describing how a car drove in the "opposite direction down dual carriageway".

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

"I drove into Moscow yesterday from the provinces," says Lyubov.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

With many Americans already feeling pinched after postpandemic inflation drove up the prices of goods and services, that could be a recipe for even greater economic malaise.

From Slate Aug. 20, 2026

At last they drove us back from the faucets and herded us down an avenue between barracks.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

As with so many trends driven by TikTok, comedic reaction and spoofery is what will be appearing right now on many people's For You page.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

According to the researchers, the hippocampal hyperactivity associated with APOE4 was entirely driven by APOE4 produced within neurons themselves.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

Chinese online travel platforms have reported surging visits to temples in recent years, largely driven by young people.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Some of the new enthusiasm is driven by the phenomenon of "set-jetting" -- people travelling to a destination after seeing it in a movie or TV series.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

Lady Constance and Lord Fredrick went ahead in their brougham, driven by Old Timothy, of course.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

Former National Assembly deputy Nguyen Sy Cuong was indeed driving his car down Nguyen Huy Tu Street on 30 May, 2025, when his vehicle suddenly swerved across the road and into an oncoming motorcycle.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

“We’re still going to cover those big-volume driving socks and underwear and denim and Ts,” to serve budget shoppers, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

"They're riding the AI boom... They're not driving the wave, they're riding the wave," he said.

From Barron's Aug. 23, 2026

In 2018, one episode was taped in a jeep while driving on a muddy road in Kenya and shaking back and forth.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2026

I met a man driving a wagon and asked him how far it was to The Kingdom and what direction.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff




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