drift
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4.0
- noun
- /drɪft/
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tendencia
- Over the years, there has been a noticeable drift in the company's strategy away from traditional marketing.
- upward drift
- mission drift
- prevent drift
You have not had a great deal of genetic drift from your great, great, great grandparents.
- You have not had a great deal of genetic drift from your great, great, great grandparents.
- That is enough to now create a huge drift in the relationship and break things apart.
- Your body starts going into a slow shutdown and a epigenetic drift.
- Donbas was viewed as the way how to influence Ukraine to stop it from a drift toward the West.
- How much signal drift is there hour to hour day-to-day, week to week, month to month?
- You see how you end up in this like drift and drift and drift.
Examples
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Donbas was viewed as the way how to influence Ukraine to stop it from a drift toward the West.
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I expected the government would be narrowly defeated... but Robinson did not trust the opinion polls... which were, in any case, showing a last minute drift away from Labour.
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That is enough to now create a huge drift in the relationship and break things apart.
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The result was a year of confusion and drift in the management of the international economy.
Academic text (1994) -
We need a leader who will put a stop to the drift that has gone on almost ceaselessly for the past 50 years.
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We believe that some really dramatic action was necessary to stop this terrible drift towards a nuclear catastrophe.
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It brought about profound social change around the world and was a significant factor in the drift towards the Second World War.
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The momentum of Vietnamese life, says Broyles, confirms the drift of Western history and the Americanization of the planet.
Academic text (1990) -
The recent shift in public opinion reflects a gradual drift towards progressive policies.
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The study showed a concerning drift in students' attitudes towards environmental issues over the past decade.
Synonyms
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2.3
A general change over time in what people do or like
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3.4
A general change in what people think or do
Compounds
How Much Change
Surface Forms
Etymology
Drift comes from an old Norse word meaning 'to drive', giving the image of something slowly being pushed in one direction, and so a drift is a gradual change or tendency over time.