drive
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Susan Li, Meta's chief financial officer, told financial analysts that selling its tech to other companies would help it drive returns on its AI spending.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Inventories were at 1.07 billion barrels early last year when the Chinese government announced a major stockpiling drive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
German armsmaker Rheinmetall on Wednesday reported record profit as the tank gun maker cashes in on Europe's rearmament drive.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
"At one point I'm also a little bit fed up with repeating myself, because it's already hard enough just having to drive it."
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Now his trucks were lined up on the floor, waiting to drive into the cardboard box garage.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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"Leave now!" shouts an understandably irritable officer as he drives past.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Cooling every home by machine would strain the grid and warm the streets, hampering the effort to slow the warming that drives the demand.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Mosley said the company expects “durable long-term demand for mass capacity storage” as artificial-intelligence drives the creation of more data.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 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
He drives this monster-huge Ford truck, the kind where if another guy driving a monster-huge truck pulls up beside him, they both start all nodding at each other and revving their engines.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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And unforgiving, unforgiven, A derelict, by tempest driven, I drave beneath the breadth of heaven ...
From Ioläus The man that was a ghost by Mackereth, James Allan
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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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
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
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 Müller, Max
Twice when we drove along it, we saw an Israeli settler sitting in the empty fields.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
The global slowdown in demand for pricey goods has been especially pronounced in China, a country that once drove the sector’s growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
"On the way to the hospital, we drove past KFC so that must have been why it was in my head," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
She packed us into the station wagon and drove us to the Village.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
They drove under a little bridge and through downtown.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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The world’s largest brewer said total volumes were 0.9% higher on year, driven by beer volumes rising 1.1%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The company said sales growth was driven by higher product demand, improved product mix and a 10% increase in average selling price to $384.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Its results contrasted with those of Microsoft, another tech giant that has faced investor doubts but beat analyst expectations on Wednesday, driven by its cloud and artificial intelligence businesses.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
KBW’s Switzer said that Wall Street may view SoFi’s quarter as a “lower-quality beat” since it was “almost entirely” driven by growth on the balance sheet, in his view.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
The last I saw of him as we were driven away, he was standing there in the rain, in his uniform again now, waving us off.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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The company's HBM business is also "driving a significantly positive impact on their foundry business as well", MS Hwang, an analyst at investment firm Counterpoint, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
The analysts say memory makers could have a sharp capacity growth from late 2027 into 2028, improving the tight demand-supply dynamics and driving price erosion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
He acknowledged steps taken to reduce the effect of energy recovery on driving over the next two seasons as "the right thing for the sport".
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Residents have resorted to using orange cones to stop Waymos from driving through alleyways or onto the lots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
She was a Queen Mother, which basically meant she was a big deal—so big, in fact, that she had people taking care of her, driving her places, and even coming to her for political advice.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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