tide
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3.4
- noun
- /taɪd/
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marea
- The schools struggle daily against an enormous tide of hostility and indifference.
- turn the tide
- stem the tide
- tide of change
And our job is to hold the tide back until it gets better.
- And our job is to hold the tide back until it gets better.
- Watching Kalea, he feels the old worry rise, a tide, slow and predictable.
- But in the long tide of history, change always wins.
- And just so you know, rising tide raises all boats to a certain degree.
- Like he has turned the tides of this entire kingdom's fate.
- It was extraordinary how suddenly the tide changed.
- When you celebrate and lift them up, the whole tide rises.
- But our topic is the rising tide of compelled speech in Canada.
- Look at the massive cyber attacks and the incoming tide of disinformation.
- Because rising tides lift all ships, right?
- But like, like you, you changed the tide of history.
- Well, I think that we're seeing the tide shift now to where people are like it's not OK.
- And he says this kind of movie, rising tides lifts all boats.
Examples
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The rising tide is not lifting all boats.
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I make this point because of the rising tide of food-specific neo-Luddism in America.
Academic text (2012) -
Well, look, I mean, the tide is definitely turning.
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Instead, she felt caught in a tide that was moving her toward marriage against her will.
Academic text (1994) -
By the end of 1988, the tide of the war had turned.
Academic text (2011) -
Speaker, the Prime Minister will know that there is a rising tide of racism in our country.
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It was extraordinary how suddenly the tide changed.
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Hey, they told me a rising tide lifts all boats.
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The rising tide lifts all boats.
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There is a rising tide of support for environmental policies in recent years.
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
3
6.8
Sea water that turns red or brown because many tiny sea plants make poisons that can harm fish and people
- Specialized
1
7.0
A short time when the water is almost still before the current changes direction
- Specialized
A tide when the difference between high and low water is very small twice a month
How Strong
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tide for a large movement or trend also comes from the old word tīd meaning 'time', and you can see this old sense in Yuletide, where it means 'time'. We picture ideas and feelings like the sea, so a 'tide of opinion' is a big wave of feeling that grows and then falls.