tide
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“I don’t see much to stem that tide on what’s happening with diesel records for at least a week,” Cinquegrana said Friday.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
The weight of the Japanese numbers eventually turned the tide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
High tide was 6.7 feet on Sunday, 7 feet on Monday evening and is forecast to surge as high as 7.2 feet on Tuesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
He has swum against the tide and now he is very much in the train of modern football, and at the front.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
“But ‘Time and tide wait for no man.’
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
“The freer the flow of world trade, the stronger the tides for human progress and peace among nations.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
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
“This is why I’m so concerned about what November, December and January look like,” when super king tides are expected.
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
Storm tides would frequently submerge their spit of land when the weather turned ugly.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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
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
The role wasn’t new for her, but the honor of precedence might have been a good tiding.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
This is beginning to look like a plan: from maids’ service to something better, with the nursing home tiding me over during the transition.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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