tide
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How and why did the tide turn against this sticky substance?
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
By seeking public office, “I was dipping my big toe into a tide of ambition, ego, and irrationality,” he wrote later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
At low tide, Sgiath can, as Dr Sim puts it "dive down under the seaweed".
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The coastal flooding advisories farther north, in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, extend through Monday morning’s high tide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Clouds of poison tide swirled around Roz while she moved.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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The protective fencing around the nesting ground was washed away in high tides earlier this year.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Proposed explanations have included differences in how the Moon's original magma ocean circulated, a massive collision, heating caused by gravitational tides, and uneven development of the lunar crust.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Forecasters with the weather service predicted Monday’s and Tuesday’s morning tides would reach around 7.5 feet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
The National Hurricane Center said the worst of Rachel was over but "hazardous coastal conditions" could persist for days, with the highest waves coinciding with high tides, causing life-threatening surf and rip currents.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
“It was the tides of fate that brought you back to us, then,” Pater Lumley said.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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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
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
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
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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