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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

And so the idea that he experienced that kind of low ebb at that point in his career, I think, is interesting.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

The decision was predicted by all eight economists polled by The Wall Street Journal as the immediate risks from the Iran crisis ebb.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Between this present dark and one day’s ebb, after the wane, before the crescent moon, Odysseus will come.”

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Who will pay the price when the SpaceX hype ebbs?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Whereas Coltrane brought grace and a gentle texture, Rollins arguably delivered a firmer sense of music's ebbs and flows, crafting jazz in the manner of a classical composer.

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

Of course, the popularity or otherwise of all parties ebbs and flows over time, and as recently as the 2017 general election Labour and the Conservatives managed 82.4% of the vote between them.

From BBC ● May 3, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026

But this relief soon ebbs: for someone who’s so smelly, Teeth is hard to track.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

Once that goal was achieved, political enthusiasm and public interest ebbed, as did funding for further exploration.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

Comparable sales, which account for store openings and closing, ebbed 1.1%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Since then, the relationship has ebbed and flowed.

From Slate ● May 19, 2026

Admittedly, Hollywood’s infatuation with the festival has ebbed and flowed over the years, but 2026 seems like a rare outlier.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

All the furious red had ebbed out of it.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

While he hung on for several more weeks, the PM's authority was ebbing away.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 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

With alcohol consumption ebbing again, the brand is now experimenting with a zero-alcohol citrus cocktail it calls Citrus Sin—in homage to Beam’s Prohibition-informed philosophy that not promoting agriculture and community employment was a sin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 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

The screaming had stopped, the cold was ebbing away....

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling