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meander

[mee-an-der] / miˈæn dər /


NOUN
winding course, zigzag
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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

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

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

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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