rive
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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
As the boy talks he reveals the South's new reconstruction: carpetbaggers who ar rive by jet from the Middle East to buy whole islands, the latest styles in scalawags and gentrification.
From Time Magazine Archive
His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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
Negotiations between the two sides have been rived with mistrust for months, with both sides pointing fingers over the escalating tensions.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2019
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
When he faced Spurlock, the granite was cracked and rived; never had Spurlock seen such dumb agony in human eyes.
From The Ragged Edge by Harold MacGrath
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
Small towns were riven between people calling themselves Patriots and British Loyalists.
From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2025
The cloud caught up with them, and the first stout drops plopped on the ground out of the riven sky.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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
Also in the interior were 100 Russian trucks, and Soviet "technicians" were ar riving almost daily from the north.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the government's admission, the new budget is expected to produce a 7% drop in the standard of riving over the next year.
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
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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