For instance, if one molecule approaches another, it will drift along at the same speed with no thought of avoiding a collision.

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The sample and the particles then drift along the channels towards spin valves that have been prepared with different antibodies to the same target molecules.

ECONOMIST: Labs on a chip

The ruling party and finance ministry mandarins are now replaying the old goso sendan, or convoy system, in which good and bad banks cooperate to drift along in tandem.

FORBES: Opiate of the masses

The rash of departures is certainly being treated as bad news by many permanent Eurocrats in Brussels, who worry that this is a bad moment for the commission to drift along without strong leadership.

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The one thing which I think would be a bad idea would be just to let it all drift along as it has done, for too long I think, without facing up to the issues of university finance, which are very important.

BBC: Breakfast with Frost

In fact I was a man weighed down with disappointment, a man for whom things had not worked out the way he had once imagined, a quiet man, cautious in his life, timid when you came right down to it, though content enough to drift along through the little rituals of his day.

NEWYORKER: Miracle Polish

This drift towards virtue, along with a new code of conduct for Eurocrats published this week, is welcome.

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The spill's northeast drift means Florida's anglers now are hurting along with fishermen from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

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