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[rahyv] / raɪv /




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Though she did not hang out with the bohemians and intellectuals of the rive gauche, there was nevertheless something about her persona that chimed with the romantic existentialism of the time.

From The Guardian Apr. 29, 2018

You never put your foot in the same rive twice.

From New York Times Nov. 28, 2017

“Per le spiagge, per le rive di Trieste,” he began, singing the opening lines of “The Bells of Saint Giusto,” a patriotic World War I paean to Italy’s victory against—and Trieste’s independence from—Austria-Hungary.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 3, 2015

Theoretically, a Caltech student may ar rive at all the wrong answers on exams, and still get passing marks if his professor believes that his thinking is sound.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a lightning in his eyes which seemed to rive the spectator.

From Patrick Henry by Moses Coit Tyler

But a story rived by cover-ups and uncertainty is only further muddled by meditations on the uncertain nature of storytelling.

From New York Times Sep. 1, 2020

But the Mason marriage also suggests an allegory of the West itself, which Stegner saw as perpetually and fatally rived between a destructive, antisocial individualism and a too often stymied longing for stability and community.

From New York Times Jun. 1, 2020

The episodic narrative tracks Gloria over a period rived by minor as well as life-altering change.

From New York Times Mar. 7, 2019

The battle that Gil cannot leave behind is the war that rived his nation.

From Washington Post May 11, 2018

I counted the days while St Mark's Day, and tewed and rived and better rived to keep him out o' his coffin.

From More Tales of the Ridings by Frederic William Moorman

One of those strengths is a mental fortitude that comes with representing a country that is riven by crisis and humanitarian disaster.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

By sunset, the "Islamabad Talks" had produced press releases, a memorable food spread and impressively fast internet in a country riven with tech challenges.

From Barron's Apr. 11, 2026

Pope Leo XIV is encouraging Turkey to be a source of stability and dialogue in a world riven by conflict.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 2, 2025

Spending cuts are even more difficult than in Britain—where welfare cuts have proved to be a political nonstarter—and securing a budget at all in a deeply riven French Parliament is a challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 30, 2025

All their arrows were spent, and every shaft was shot; their swords were notched, and their shields were riven.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

However, the game turned on its head in dramatic fashion when Charteris was sent to the sin-bin for stopping a riving maul illegally.

From BBC Jun. 21, 2014

Craig DuMez Brookfield, Wis. As an American riving in Brazil, I felt great pride as I listened to Mondale's concession speech.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their two daughters are riving on the West Coast, and their son David, 18, is attending Auburn University in Alabama.

From Time Magazine Archive

An unsuccessful mail plane was Martin's only non-military venture lately until this year when Pan American Airways submitted specifications for a huge riving boat of long cruising range for oceanic service.

From Time Magazine Archive

Starting in fall 1793, British troops began ar- riving in Saint Domingue to reenslave people and return them to their sugar plantations.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson




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