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the flood tide of criticism that the company received
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Most new titles from book publishers float into bookstores like flood tides in winter, summer and fall.
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Scott Burns, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
These enclaves, once the backbone of Ukraine’s agricultural eastern steppe, were reduced to ruin as the war passed over them like a flood tide.
—Natalia Yermak Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 14 July 2023
But get this: the freethinkers who dreamed up this potential flood tide work not out of Honda's Japanese R&D center and studio but its American think tank and design enclave in Southern California.
—Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 15 June 2023
The next morning, a flood tide of parents and children washed over the kids’ area, with families backed up out the door.
—Amy Virshup, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2022
Inside, visitors can see relics and reminders of one of the most consequential migrations in human history, a flood tide of humanity that changed the fabric of America.
—Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2022
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Scott Burns, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
These enclaves, once the backbone of Ukraine’s agricultural eastern steppe, were reduced to ruin as the war passed over them like a flood tide.
—Natalia Yermak Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 14 July 2023
But get this: the freethinkers who dreamed up this potential flood tide work not out of Honda's Japanese R&D center and studio but its American think tank and design enclave in Southern California.
—Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 15 June 2023
The next morning, a flood tide of parents and children washed over the kids’ area, with families backed up out the door.
—Amy Virshup, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2022
Inside, visitors can see relics and reminders of one of the most consequential migrations in human history, a flood tide of humanity that changed the fabric of America.
—Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2022
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“Flood tide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flood%20tide. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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