tide
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The weight of the Japanese numbers eventually turned the tide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The tide turned when Rosales was offered a full scholarship to art school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Eisenhower needed a full moon, low tide, not much cloud or wind and low seas, external.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The center warned that the combination of a storm surge and tide could flood normally dry areas near the coast in Kauai and Niihau, and a flash flood warning was issued for Kauai on Monday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
They soared high above the poison tide and disappeared into the northern sky.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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An autopsy found Noah had died from drowning, with the tunnel he was found in heading towards Belfast Lough and its tides.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
And lately, the state has also seen abnormally high tides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Farther south in San Clemente, high tides also overran a section of the long-vulnerable coastal railway, once again shuttering the route after considerable slope damage and erosion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
“The cliffs can be unpredictable,” she said, “and changing tides, strong currents, rough surf, and hidden rocks can quickly create life-threatening conditions.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
A man escaping from Biddle Island would do better to try his luck with the river, the tides, and the sharks, than to test the quiet susurrant heart of the marsh.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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The invention has tided him over as the semester ended this week.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2025
The review concluded that the music of “Ukrainia” did suggest “the colossal wealth of youthful and untouched vitality which had tided over centuries of the most tragic history in the world.”
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2019
They then went back to their changing room, showered and changed, tided up, removed the rubbish and left a note for ground staff reading “thank you” in Russian.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2018
Co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss tided us over with a Victorian-set Sherlock Christmas special last winter, but we’re ready to see the modern Sherlock take on the mysteriously resurrected Moriarty.
From Time ● Jul. 20, 2016
The extra cash tided them through the toughest months during the rest of the year.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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She was proved correct, and was tiding up broken statues when spoke to the BBC.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
No. It’s an appetizer for better things to come, an amuse-bouche at best — at worst, a placeholder meal of cinematic comfort food, tiding us all over until it’s summer blockbuster season again.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2023
That’s not much, but it’s still the best discount available on the classic VR-reimagining of the Capcom classic, tiding you over before the new remake comes out in 2023.
From The Verge ● Jun. 20, 2022
It was the last get-together of the year, and a warm and caloric tiding for the new one about to begin.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2013
Vetch furnishes essential spring forage for bees before the alfalfa is in bloom, tiding them over this early season so that they are ready to pollinate the alfalfa.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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