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tide

[tahyd] / taɪd /


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At low emotional tide, Sessa’s Tony can also be watchful and quiet.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

His departure has allowed Prime Minister Narendra Modi to tide over an immediate crisis, but keeping youth discontent in check may well remain a long-term challenge for his government.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

Despite the looming heatwave, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez declared that "we are indeed turning the tide, and we can begin to see light at the end of the tunnel in the fight against these fires".

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

“For example, if you know the correct moon cycle to go fishing on, lay your nets on the right tide, at the right place, you will have a higher success rate.”

From Salon Jul. 26, 2026

At low tide, the cables were pulled as tight as possible.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

County closed several restrooms and an access road to Point Dume Beach after high tides and surf caused “extreme erosion,” according to the Department of Beaches and Harbors.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 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

Scott-Hays added that some visitors "have no idea on tides, so there needs to be an educational element to all of this".

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

Meanwhile, the changing tides of the war are whipsawing entire market sectors.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 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

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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