drive
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I’m just happy my mom’s older and she can’t drive, so I don’t gotta buy her anything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
It’s Thursday night, and sitting at the top of the football bleachers after a two-hour drive from Mission Viejo are JT and Kathy Reis, grandparents of Palos Verdes High twins Christian and Weston Reis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
This difference helps drive the production of ATP, the molecule cells use as their primary energy source.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
In a separate Gartner survey, 80% of chief executives said technology now has become strategy itself, with tech at the center of conversations that drive competitiveness and enterprise direction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
He began to drive the iron back and forth, the electric cord rasping against the hook it was strung through near the ceiling.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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And because it creates a labyrinth of different payers, it also drives up the administrative costs of the doctors and hospitals as well.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
Coterie hopes the effort drives awareness and sparks dialogue, but also brings more men into the fold as customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Briton John Surtees drives his Lotus through the streets of California on his way to Riverside race track, which staged the 1960 US Grand Prix.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
If you know your Austen, you know that financial insecurity drives the narrative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Sometimes she took her Zhiguli, a boxy four-cylinder Russian car, on winding drives through the capital.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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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
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
Drive me not from thee, as I drave thee from me!
From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Stefan Zweig
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
Count Guido, the vicar, with the Tuscan league and the forces of the Pisans, marched upon Lucca, whereon the Lucchese made their peace, and drave out the Guelf refugees from Lucca.
From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Giovanni Villani
Monitoring continued after Bevan, from Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, became a minister in the post-war Labour government when he drove through the creation of the NHS in the face of opposition from doctors.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
When Doncic drove, Kessler knew to step up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
That science drove Debra and Paul Smith to act.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The truck's air conditioning malfunctioned, and the temperature inside soared as it drove north to San Antonio, Texas.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
I was still asleep the next morning when Grandpa and Grandma drove up to our house.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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She has driven a carriage in Manhattan's most famous park, pulled by her horse, for six years.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The rise was slightly higher than economists had predicted, driven by higher petrol and diesel prices.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
The benefit-expense ratio, a closely watched metric that compares health costs with premium revenue, improved by 70 basis points to 90.6%, driven by better performance in Medicare Advantage and individual Affordable Care Act plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The discovery came amid a surge in software security disclosures driven by increasingly powerful AI models, with the number of vulnerabilities found in 2026 on track to roughly double last year's record total.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
With each pound of the piano keys, a sharp stab was driven through my chest.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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And like much else on Wall Street, the driving force apparently is artificial intelligence, including demands for massive infrastructure spending to support its vast computing power.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
"What am I supposed to do with my horse?" asked the 28-year-old, who has been driving in the park for six years.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Chapman made a name for himself championing “truly human leadership,” which espouses that better business performance starts with improving the lives of the workers driving that performance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
For much of this year, Tesla has also encountered scrutiny over swelling capital spending to fund ambitious programs in artificial intelligence, robotics and autonomous driving.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 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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