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Stopping issues such as herbicide drift, where farmers spray chemicals onto their land and through wind it moves miles away and damages other crops, would be another advantage, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

These vignettes — “scenes” would be giving too much credit — eventually drift into musical riffs or spoken-word rants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

There will also be heavy rain which will drift southwards, but little promise of where it is needed most across eastern England.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

I begin to drift back to sleep, when my eyes shoot open.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

I stare at my square of sky until I drift into what feels like the shortest sleep of my life.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

Still, the risk isn’t that stocks suddenly collapse, but that money slowly drifts elsewhere, Rizzuto told MarketWatch on Friday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026

The immense umbrella cloud that forms does not behave like a normal ash plume that simply drifts with the prevailing wind.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

The various inversions will include a barrel roll, a zero-g roll and an overbanked stall turn, hinting at a heavily twisted track that will create drifts and swinging.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Sea-level rise is measured in millimeters, so tiny drifts in the reference frame prevent accurate calculations of coastal risk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

They trudged along as fast as they could, over patches of grass, and through thick drifts of old leaves; and all about them the rain pattered and trickled.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Women’s favorability dipped during and right after the tournament before recovering in September, and their purchase consideration drifted down slightly across the whole window. If the marketing broadened Adidas’s appeal, it landed more with men.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

The haze has drifted into neighbouring Singapore, Malaysia and East Timor, which said it would shut schools nationwide for three days from Thursday, and as far afield as the Philippines.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Over the past few sessions, trading volume has dwindled, while major indexes have mostly drifted sideways.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

It can also rescue a tomato soup that’s drifted too far toward sweetness.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

My eyes drifted to the woman, who wore a plain indigo tunic with knots, her graying hair drawn back in a tight bun.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The government is working with industry "to bring young people back into the labour market and prevent them from drifting into the welfare system", he added.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The haze has prompted school closures in Malaysia and East Timor, with haze drifting into Singapore and as far afield as the Philippines.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

The bank continues to see a risk that guidance will be changed to a margin of more than 5%, drifting down from the current guide of the low end of around 5.5%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Pilots will constantly eye one another in the formation, and warn each other if they start drifting too close to each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Mrs. Flint suffered from thinning hair, and so there were always stray strands drifting around the kitchen floor—more than enough to stuff four mattresses.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck