tide
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“But a rising tide does not necessarily lift all boats, particularly when that tide is fundamental technological change. There remain signs of concern in labor markets,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
And there are signs that the tide is turning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Bow, from Bridgend, said he had been walking along the beach in the Vale of Glamorgan at low tide in the spring of 2012 when he had spotted "what looked to be a jaw".
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
"This storm is expected to bring major coastal flooding to the Mid-Atlantic Coast over multiple high tide cycles through the weekend," the National Weather Service said in its latest forecast.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Roz was now looking at the source of the poison tide.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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Some locals in the mainly conservative Pahrump region are concerned about the change in tides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Still, they coincide with bimonthly astronomical high tides, which means water levels already will be elevated, and erosion and flooding are more likely, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
“But the tides are going to be so high that any little bump-up in the surf is going to help contribute to those impacts.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Due to the tides and limited access to the island, attempts to refloat the live animals were not possible and the teams withdrew once again.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The tides didn’t have the time to change before the recommendation was general information around Phippsburg.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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The invention has tided him over as the semester ended this week.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2025
These experiences filled his time on the rigs, and tided over his growing impatience about his university aspirations being placed on hold until this assignment was over.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2023
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
It wasn’t enough for Vonetta to say her poem, which was actually Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem tided “We Real Cool.”
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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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
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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