drive
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That raises an important question: Is the rest of the market complacent in the face of looming risks that could drive borrowing costs even higher than they already are?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
It will also drive another nail into the remaining, fringy Zombie bowl system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Dean Logan, the Los Angeles county clerk and recorder, told The Guardian his office refused to review the list, in part because they didn’t consider the USB drive to be secure.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
It deals another blow to the kingdom's ambitious economic transformation drive.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
“Jen and your dad are both going to drive around town,” Mom says.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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The team discovered that this rise drives excessive mTORC1 activity, disrupting the normal cycle of protein production and removal.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Across an itinerant urgency of walks, drives, embraces, laughs, threats, nervy meetings, shared meals, phone calls and tearful testimony, Loktev’s immersive portrait of roving defiance is as necessary as nonfiction gets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Rafael will also reveal a connection to Lorca that, within the overarching narrative, drives a literary mystery relating to the unfinished play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
It's not entirely clear, but it seems to be just the way he drives.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Dad drives us to school in the morning, but he’s out at the dig all day, so we have to walk home.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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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
Then Sir Gareth wiped his sword and drave it back again into its sheath; and he remounted his horse and rode very quietly back to where the damsel waited for him upon the farther bank.
From The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by Howard Pyle
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
“Then he drew sword and drave her Where the judges sat and said ‘Caesar sits above the gods, Barbara the maid.
From The Ballad of St. Barbara And Other Verses by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
Haines -- who lives on a small cattle property outside Wangaratta -- was getting something from the trunk of her car when her alleged attacker drove past in a Toyota Land Cruiser.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
In 2024 youthful protesters drove Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from power and challenged Serbia’s political establishment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
However, if technology and the AI-related theme outperformed and drove the separation between the indexes, it’s reasonable to expect those same sectors to lead the S&P 500’s underperformance.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2026
Winds on Thursday drove brush fires in Malibu and Camp Pendleton.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Early the next morning a sled drove up in front of our house.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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In its IPO filing, Nscale noted that "a substantial portion of our committed revenue is driven by a limited number of customers with large contracts", namely Microsoft and US AI giant Anthropic.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Haines was struck by a White Toyota Landcruiser, which was driven by a 43-year-old Tarrawingee man, Victoria Police said.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Raised near Barcelona, she fell under the spell of flamenco, a centuries-old musical tradition with songs driven by little more than handclaps and intricate acoustic guitar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
In 2026, computer-science course enrollment declined to 645, driven by a decline in 100-level enrollments, the department chair, Mark Hopkins, shared with MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
“Wish Mom could have driven us,” she said.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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It might be a few weeks before investors have a clearer picture of what might be driving this, Colas said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Peter Finn, who serves as the Teamsters’ vice president at-large, said that truck driving is the most common job for men without a college degree in the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Temperatures were far above average for this time of year in southern California, further driving up the fire danger.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
By targeting this connection, DT-109 may offer a way to address some of the processes driving liver inflammation rather than focusing exclusively on damage that has already occurred.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
More than 45 percent of women worked outside the home during the war, producing ammunition, building ships and airplanes, driving trains, and nursing the wounded.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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