drove

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Researchers say the evidence shows nurse practitioners can offer care on par with general practitioners, though one study of emergency departments found they drove up costs, in part by ordering more testing.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

"They put fuel in one of them and then they both drove away," Judith said of the couple, who arrived at her forecourt in two vans.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

Both actors understood the task: to interrogate what drove each man to create music and why one’s compositions outlasted the other.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Mr. Kshatriya is the American-born son of Indian immigrant scientists, and he has fully absorbed the patriotic values that drove the original space race against the Soviet Union.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

“Today you can help Laurence with baths,” Mom told Bat as she drove him the three miles from the Saw Whet School to the small brick building marked “Valerie Tam, DVM.”

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold