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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
And they gathered in pity and fear, for they faced a problem that might rive their church to its foundations.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Sylvia decided in favor of rooms on the rive gauche.
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton
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
And the Sacramento Kings — well, at least the Kings are still the Kings, reportedly rived by front-office drama.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2018
The red, dusty landscape that surrounds his house and studio is rived by a dry creek bed.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2018
The battle that Gil cannot leave behind is the war that rived his nation.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2018
At the sides they set up rived planks, lining the inside with neatly made flagg matting.
From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by Bushnell, David Ives
Homelessness has been a vexing problem throughout American history, an issue riven by disagreements among policymakers and legislators over how best to help people in need of shelter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
A former ambassador to Washington and independent politician, 76-year-old Karam is known for his defence of Lebanese unity in a country riven by sectarian divisions.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
“I actually have some thoughts,” she said when asked by a reporter how she felt about representing the U.S. at a time when the country is riven by deep political divides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2026
Long before Nancy's arrival, the club was riven with disharmony.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025
Ahead, on the western horizon, clouds lay heaped and brilliant, riven with chasms of darkness, their tops drawn out in the high-altitude winds.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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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
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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
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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
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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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