riptide

Example Sentences

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Investors felt a slight reprieve on Friday from the riptide that’s been gathering around artificial intelligence and the stock market.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 14, 2026

To empathize with her is not to presume to understand her; it’s to get caught in the riptide of her mysterious pleasures and pains.

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2025

Exploring the floor of the exhibit hall did not feel like getting pulled along a riptide of other attendees.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2023

A preliminary inquest hearing was told there was a "suggestion" a riptide led to the teenagers' deaths.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2023

I had washed up there on the riptide of my husband’s confidence and the undertow of my children’s needs.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver