as in trend
a prevailing or general movement or inclination
the tide of the battle turned suddenly, and the would-be invaders were forced to retreat
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Recent Examples of tide
Those waves come along with the king tides that will surge along the coast until Friday.
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Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
The blue tide washed further than most pollsters had predicted.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 5 Nov. 2025
But Mamdani's catapult into the national spotlight could help turn the tide, with members of those communities mobilizing in large numbers on his behalf throughout his campaign.
—Emily Chang, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2025
Dancing With the Stars’s rising tide is really lifting all boats, even ones that left port years ago.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
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Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
The blue tide washed further than most pollsters had predicted.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 5 Nov. 2025
But Mamdani's catapult into the national spotlight could help turn the tide, with members of those communities mobilizing in large numbers on his behalf throughout his campaign.
—Emily Chang, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2025
Dancing With the Stars’s rising tide is really lifting all boats, even ones that left port years ago.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tide
Noun
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These trends will have immediate electoral consequences.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Other Indian cities with GCCs are seeing similar trends.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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At a moment of increasing niche-ification of the news media business, Axel Springer is running in the opposite direction.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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Automation can go in either of these directions; that’s why the task of the left is to create social and cultural conditions in which the benign and constructive aspects of technology and automation are primary.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Now the Dark Knight has always had some distinctly authoritarian tendencies baked into his tactics and mythology, as a Christopher Nolan movie or three made pretty clear.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
9 Nov. 2025
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Unfortunately, the songs have a tendency to drift towards a very similar sound, which stands out in the context of a project where everything else is so imaginative.—
Kambole Campbell,
IndieWire,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Stay away from windows as flying debris generated by damaging winds can be deadly.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Nov. 2025
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Engineering a circular blade lifecycle Despite the expansion in wind energy, major challenges remain primarily related to the design and manufacture of wind turbine blades.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Tide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tide. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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