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meander

[mee-an-der] / miˈæn dər /


NOUN
winding course, zigzag
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STRONG


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Then in one-on-one calls with the team, she will ask each the same three questions “with room for the conversation to meander where it needs to go,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Seeing the new meander on the farmland is a big moment, he said, adding "it's nice to give something back".

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

This month’s Rafale deal is symptomatic of the historic Indian tendency to meander on defense modernization, Sameer Lalwani, an expert on the Indian military at the German Marshall Fund, says in a phone interview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

Yet it was during this meander that his writing made a steep drop into seeing, feeling, connecting, plunging toward transcendence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025

We meander through the streets of town, and I try to guess where the next addresses will be.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

Basically, as the market meanders just below record highs, the internal indicators remain very negative but VIX indicators remain positive.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

He meanders somewhat, especially toward the book’s end, where each chapter seems to cover a point the author didn’t want to leave out but didn’t know how to put in seamlessly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Moves like that make it easy to comprehend that his ill-fated meanders could have been avoided if he’d followed the same directions that got everyone else home sooner.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

But it also meanders quite a lot, and is somewhere between a self-help book and a stream of anecdotes.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2025

It leads through the front doors and turns into a hallway, which meanders between rows of lockers and classrooms on both sides, finally entering the always-open door to first period.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher

Liu meandered through the park using a few different trails, including the Sunrise Lakes route, to reach her ultimate destination: Half Dome on her birthday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Hawking could intuit the mathematics that describes the fabric of spacetime, but in that earlier book he sometimes forgot that the rest of us could not do the same, and meandered into distracting mathematical discussions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

There was a festival air on this public holiday as families marched and meandered in a warm winter's sun.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

“But we’d meandered away from the band in so many different ways that maybe it would have been another three, four, five years.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025

This path meandered like a river of light, and as she walked, her feet kicked up tiny flecks of silver dust that hovered in the air.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

Any trip should involve a hike in Chautauqua Park, or a long, meandering bike ride along the Boulder Creek Path.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Rangers were so flat in the Czech Republic, meandering about like confused men, showing weakness in the tackle and not a scintilla of wit.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

“A resort-style pool, tranquil lily ponds, meandering pathways, shaded terraces, and a full-size tennis court create moments of both recreation and quiet reflection, where the sounds of nature replace the pace of everyday life.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

After a campaign over hundreds of years saw rivers tamed for commercial use, he urged a shift back "toward natural rivers featuring meandering branches and floodplains that retain water across the landscape".

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

There were no confusing, meandering statements with him.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi


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