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“Your vulnerabilities can ebb and flow. So you want to ask, ‘Where are my vulnerabilities?’” in a given situation.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Oil is following the now-familiar pattern of ebb and flow, settling higher overnight after Houthi attacks on Saudi targets raised concerns of escalation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The success of Brewis's app, and the creation of others like it, suggests the dramatic recent ebb and flow of Westminster may have inspired a popular new sub-genre.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

The fish come up on the sand for about two hours at night, as the high tide starts to ebb, usually between 10pm and 2am.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Ever attuned to the ebb and flow of research funding, he recognized that the government stood to become as generous a financial backer as the medical foundations he had mined to build the sixty-inch.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Attention surrounding Sunset Cliffs injuries ebbs and flows much like the current, according to Frank Gormlie, a longtime San Diego County resident who tracked incidents more than a decade ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

The longer the ceasefire, the more likely that any spike in inflation ebbs away in the coming months.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026

"It's the ebbs and flows of the road. You can't really see what's on the other side."

From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026

Since national defense cannot tolerate downtime, readiness spending tends to persist even when procurement ebbs.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026

The pain ebbs slightly when Celia kneels next to him and takes his hand.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

And even though levels of leverage in certain corners of the market have ebbed from their peak levels seen shortly before July’s artificial-intelligence swoon, risks remain.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026

Unemployment levels have ebbed and flowed in recent months, but remain near historic lows despite slow hiring as companies continue to forgo major layoffs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

His standing ebbed further when a long-simmering row behind the scenes over defence spending prompted Labour stalwart John Healey to resign as defence secretary earlier this month.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

Since then, the relationship has ebbed and flowed.

From Slate ● May 19, 2026

Then he massaged her with brandy and gunpowder, but it was all useless; Pancha’s life ebbed away in an interminable case of diarrhea that destroyed her body and left her with an insatiable thirst.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

But whatever faith people had in his ability to fix those problems, it is apparently ebbing away - and, the brutal truth is, it can be hard to find voters who like him.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Meanwhile, any ebbing of energy and related costs if the Iran war ends would provide an additional boost to margins.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

The most famous story-style intro — it literally begins with, “Here’s a story” — belongs to “The Brady Bunch,” which bridged the 1960s and ’70s, a decade that saw the ebbing of title-sequence stories.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026

Any ebbing of drone strikes could be deceptive, with Iran amassing them for another swarming assault.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

I find my anger ebbing away, and I’m lost in muffled grief again, this time not just for Tris, but for Uriah, whose smile is burned into my memory.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth