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drifting

  • present participle
    of drift.
    drift
    noun
    a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.

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These days he’s a religious gent and a shepherd to drifting youth, a golf addict, sober as a mullah, and insists his critics have always taken him far too seriously.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Now they’re drifting apart, at a moment of volatility for the yapping-in-blazers trade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

As he tried to check if the local health centre was open in the middle of the night Sandra's pain left her and she started "drifting off".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The drifting steamboats resembled primordial creatures that the winter chill had lured to the surface.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros