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- noun Plural form of
riptide .
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Examples
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In fact, there is: market "riptides," big economic trends that have always made money for those bold and farsighted enough to seize them.
Safehaven 2009
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Sadly, once a person dips their toes into those waters, they discover it is chock full of riptides and undercurrents.
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They want the American republic to declare its independence of market riptides that are deranging the old journalism and that are governing the government.
Jim Sleeper: Markets, New Media, the Occupiers, and the Next Step Jim Sleeper 2011
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PRINCEVILLE, Hawaii—In his work, travel writer Andrew Doughty often deals with mosquito-infested rain forest and treacherous riptides.
Guidebooks to Risky Attractions Stir Up Trouble in Paradise Jim Carlton 2011
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The protesters insist that market riptides, and the politics and the old journalism that are captive to them, are debasing our public story lines as hired pundits and politicians bypass our brains and hearts on their way to our lower viscera and wallets.
Jim Sleeper: Markets, New Media, the Occupiers, and the Next Step Jim Sleeper 2011
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Emotions don't have to be riptides we get lost in; they can wash over us like waves.
Lodro Rinzler: Buddhist Breakup Advice Lodro Rinzler 2011
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But what makes riptides most dangerous is that people don't even know what they're fighting against.
Michael Brune: The Billionaire Brothers Who Make Us Sick Michael Brune 2011
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They want the American republic to declare its independence of market riptides that are deranging the old journalism and that are governing the government.
Jim Sleeper: Markets, New Media, the Occupiers, and the Next Step Jim Sleeper 2011
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But what makes riptides most dangerous is that people don't even know what they're fighting against.
Michael Brune: The Billionaire Brothers Who Make Us Sick Michael Brune 2011
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The protesters insist that market riptides, and the politics and the old journalism that are captive to them, are debasing our public story lines as hired pundits and politicians bypass our brains and hearts on their way to our lower viscera and wallets.
Jim Sleeper: Markets, New Media, the Occupiers, and the Next Step Jim Sleeper 2011
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