tide

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David answer a few more listener questions, just to tide you over until after a quick break.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

The tide turned in 2020, when regulations from Beijing seeking to limit excessive borrowing in the real-estate sector complicated Evergrande's ability to make payments.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

But it may take more than one good show to turn the tide of the Green Lantern’s reputation.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

The company will launch a $1 billion “Future Is For Everyone Fund” to directly support communities around the facilities—giving itself a new talking point to deploy against the rising tide of anti-data-center activism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

“We’ve all seen the damage done by the poison tide, and the situation is only getting worse. I think it’s best if you find a safer place to live.”

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

"Is the area safe? Consider potential hazards - too deep or too shallow, currents, tides, underwater objects," it says on its website.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

“That combination — high waves, high sea levels, high tides, and ... high rainfall will contribute to considerable coastal flooding, intrusion of salt water into the groundwater, and coastal erosion,” Merrifield said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

“By understanding nature’s cycles and natural rhythms. Māori understood the connection between moon, sun, tides and seasons, the way all animals behave,” says Venner.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

Azar Nafisi, an English literature professor who got her doctorate at the University of Oklahoma, returned to her native Tehran just after the tides of history swept away the shah and swept in the ayatollah.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Yet if you succeed, then our power is diminished, and Lothlórien will fade, and the tides of Time will sweep it away.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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 first page was tided: A Pictorial Record of Man's Economic Progress “This is terribly ambitious,” I said.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

In fact, as a thank you for Bill’s prompt and polite cooperation, Wilson said he sent him a small present, a trademark Brandon Wilson tiding of good will: a file containing 1,000 old accounts.

From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2014

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