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There’s often tinkering year to year, a tidelike give-and-take of state regulations — such as rules governing how many fish one person can keep — to appease recreational anglers, charter boat captains and commercial fishermen.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2021

He had tapes of the tidelike murmur of the crowd, and others of its wild eruptions.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2011

The first movement, as long as Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, is full of fluctuating rhythms that move along with a tidelike pull.

From Time Magazine Archive

And thou didst draw him, tidelike, higher still, Felipa, whispering the lessons learned From thy courageous father, till the flood Of his ambition burst all barriers, And swept him onward to his longed-for goal.

From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by Dickey, J. M. (John Marcus)