meander
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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
"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
From a certain point of view, it makes sense to concentrate the art into discrete thematic galleries, and to treat the space between them as flowing interstitial fluid through which the visitor can meander happily.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
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
I meander over, pretending to be really interested in the ground leading up to the group.
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
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
“Land” regains traction when it returns to Ireland and to its mythic theme, which meanders from the Neolithic era to the 20th century, with detours to more fantastical regions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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
He meanders toward the back of the store, which contains an open door that I believe may in some way be related to "Tokens."
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
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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
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
“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
Much of the third Test had meandered and drifted, only for a super Sunday to set up a potentially manic Monday.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2025
I thought she was the most gorgeous creature I’d ever seen, until a few seconds later her spotted fawn meandered into view.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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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
Then there is the foreground, filled with plush growth, a meandering rivulet and—in the left-hand corner, in contrast to the natural wonders above—a man-made carved Meso-American stone pillar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 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 what all this chant had in common was that it was one memorised, meandering tune with no accompaniment and no harmonising, the Greek term for which is monophonic: one voice.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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