tide
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Polls have consistently shown Raman is heavily favored by younger voters, who tend to vote later than older people and whose late-arriving ballots are considered likely to turn the tide in her favor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
“Yes, the tide is rising, but it’s not lifting all boats this time,” said Joe Brusuelas, economist at RSM.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
So he then deployed climbers from Achill Island Coast Guard's cliff rescue team who abseiled down the cliff to pluck the couple out of the rising tide.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The integration of Hess’s exploration team and the hiring of McLachlan was seen across the industry as a sign that the company was serious about turning the tide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
She wondered how many of them were at risk of being wiped out by the poison tide.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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Deposed dictators, embezzlers and dissent-crushers have flooded into South Florida like the regular king tides.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
Scientists warn that November and December’s tides will strengthen again, culminating not only in rough, high seas but also heavy expected rains from El Niño.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
A strong storm arrived at precisely a time of the month when the tides were very high.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
As tides rise and fall, the water lifts the ice and repeatedly exposes its underside to warm, pressurized seawater.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
Most beautiful of all are the emotions: She feels the tides of fear, bloodlust, despair, and blind fury like a swimmer in a stormy sea, overwhelming yet thrilling.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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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
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
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