wander
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Over 260 former working elephants wander through teak plantations, trumpeting as they bathe in lakes.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
You can’t help but pull over and wander through the scratch-and-sniff trees, their bark releasing the scent of vanilla and butterscotch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
“You can wander as far as your car,” I’d explain.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
When his roommates left their dorm each morning, Ma would wander Beijing, sitting in parks and looking at stray cats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
“Here are a few dimes. If the circumstances were different, I wouldn’t allow a girl your age to wander off,” she said, sizing me up with a long stare.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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"So when a child wanders into a school and into the library and sees his name or perhaps sees his photograph on a book, it can be very traumatising for some children," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
“It sets him on a journey as he wanders through his Rust Belt town,” Coury said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
“Spirited Away” is a story of a girl, Chihiro, who wanders with her parents into a magical realm and ends up getting stuck there when her mother and father transform into pigs.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
At 100, Attenborough no longer wanders the world's jungles and deserts.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
His mind wanders, like it sometimes does, to images outside the walls of the school, even while his teachers are asking him to think about things inside the school.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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She noted that tourists and security footage showed the dog had not wandered beyond a roughly two-mile stretch of the Canyon Village area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
ITHACA, N.Y.—On a drizzly Thursday, Cornell University students wandered into consulting recruitment sessions, hustled up the slopes to midterms and listened to a Pulitzer-winning fiction writer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Hammond is ebullience and warmth personified but her co-presenter, the erstwhile Mighty Boosh comedian Fielding, still looks a bit lost, as if he has wandered in from the wrong set.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Twelve years later, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wandered directly into the bit.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
She wandered down into it now, ignoring me completely.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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Harried passengers stared at their phones, calm but annoyed, wandering the airport terminal without clear direction.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
I prefer wandering a local market, imagining what I might make for dinner.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
The Angels had just reached the promised land, after more than four decades of wandering through baseball’s wilderness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Or the moons are two wandering asteroids from the outer Solar System, which were grabbed by the Red Planet's gravity.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
It was as if he, like the wandering souls he ushered, had traveled into the glowing embrace of the Afterlife.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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