ebb and flow

Examples of ebb

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Does the quiet revolution ebb and flow even within cities, let alone countries ?
For the next three decades, contested election cases would become part of the partisan landscape; however, their effects would ebb and flow.
To follow the arrival of letters, day by day and town by town, is to watch the ebb and flow of literary demand.
The utility of the paradigm as a framework within which to conceptualize the emergence, ebb, and flow of other behavior disorders is also discussed.
There was no separation of state finances from the ebb and flow of private fortunes.
The behaviour occurred only with an ebb tide.
These families often confront body anxiety while at their intellectual ebb.
The pathway to excellence is turbulent and aspiring musicians must cope with the 'ebb and flow' of development if they are to realise their potential.
There was a substantial ebb and flow of numbers of occupiers on most properties.
In the continuing ebb and flow of economic history, they are once again of present interest.
The ebb-directed current is generally the dominant current in these sandwave deposits.
The process is not strictly contingent upon tidal ebb and flow : circadian dews and rainfalls can produce identical cycling.
But this can also result from a tendency to overemphasize downbeats so that momentum ebbs.
The flooding of beaches leads to hydration of particulate sands ; these then dry progressively on tidal ebb.
Further consideration of the turbulence of the prebiotic soup (itself influenced by tidal ebb and flow) may provide new pointers to prebiotic evolution.
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