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meander

[mee-an-der] / miˈæn dər /


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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

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

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

Grief, too, steers us, a cleansing ritual, as I recall each time my wife and I meander beneath Green-Wood’s leafy canopy, parakeets swooping and chattering overhead, or sit quietly in its hushed chapel.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 30, 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

“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

The silky green ribbon of the Merced River meanders through the valley floor below, astonishingly lush during the spring snow melt.

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 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

The stages of grief are all endlessly explored, and it loses us as it meanders through some of the low parts of "The Tortured Poets Department."

From Salon Apr. 19, 2024

We wound through the meanders that led between stubbled mud-banks in no straight or seemly course.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

He was a keen student of dialect; doing movies in the South, he meandered down backroads, learning just the right way to frame a question in rural Mississippi or deliver a compliment in west Texas.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 16, 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

Then she meandered over to lean against the opposite side of the pillar Josie was standing by.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

It also shows that evolution rarely follows a straight path, instead meandering through the ever-changing conditions on our planet.

From Science Daily May 21, 2026

There's a lot of flakiness in their make-up, possibly too many players spending too much time meandering through games.

From BBC Apr. 27, 2026

His lines are lazy, woozy, all-forgiving reportage about the seasons’ slow parade, the meandering ongoingness of our world: arrival, decay and the modest glory in between.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

Since then, the 79-year-old Republican has rarely missed an opportunity to discuss the project, frequently meandering in mid-speech on other topics to riff about the architectural details of the proposed facility.

From Barron's Mar. 31, 2026

A few streams and narrow roads cut meandering paths through the trees.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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