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drifting

/ˈdɹɪftɪŋ/ noun B2
  1. The act by which something drifts. (countable, uncountable)
  2. That which drifts. (countable, uncountable)
  3. A driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. (countable, uncountable)

Plural driftings

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Every minute that white woolly plain which covered one-half of the moor was drifting closer and closer to the house.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 190 · C1
For a few minutes Anne, drifting slowly down, enjoyed the romance of her situation to the full.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 223 · C1
Drifting near to where I stand,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 19 · C1
But when, for the fourth time, after pushing back our chairs from breakfast we saw the greasy, heavy brown swirl still drifting past us and condensing in oily drops upon the window-panes, my comrade’s impatient and active nature could endure this drab existence no longer.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 1 · B2

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