meander
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"Especially species that rely on more natural gravels and variation within the channel - that's the benefit of the meander."
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
This team isn’t built to meander through the opening weeks of the season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
So every weekend, Disler and her girlfriend have an “adventure day” where they meander around a different neighborhood.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2025
The novels meander discursively through time, so it does not matter where one begins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
The smell of chickpea sauce begins to meander into the living room, and I spring up.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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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
They were among the 88 temples of the Henro pilgrimage route that traces back 1,200 years and meanders roughly 750 miles around Japan’s fourth-largest island.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 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
“We grab a table outside in the back and our daughter meanders without us feeling annoying.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
I try to keep track of turns, but Phil meanders around a bit, clearly trying to throw me off the scent of the trail.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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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
The jet stream has meandered well to the north of the UK, allowing high pressure to build and warm air to drift in from south.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
When we met him, he meandered across the field, atrophied by lack of exercise, sat on my foot and looked up with a hopeful demeanor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
Carolers meandered through town, drawing no more than a dozen onlookers as they sang “Angels We Have Heard on High” and asked shop owners whether holiday crowds might return.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
The majority of Southern Californians simply assumed William Mulholland must have been someone magnificent because he had such a nice road, which meandered through the wealthiest communities in Los Angeles, named for him.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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Penna, like so many of the government officials who appear in Oliver Basciano’s moving, if meandering, “Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity, and the Modern World,” took action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The erratic ant was named for its "high-energy foraging behaviour which sees it scamper with meandering and unpredictable movements", she added.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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
But so was the green, life- giving ribbon of willows that traced its way across these plains, following the meandering streams.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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