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
There are less rules outside, fewer boundaries: coffee dates prolong, walks meander, thoughts digress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 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
I meander out of the cathedral, and now my feet take me to what was once a Jewish street, not that far from ours.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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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
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
But those walks were disciplined; they were not meanders of discovery like Vincent’s on the heath.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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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
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
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
As the Test meandered on a sunny Friday afternoon in Nottingham, Bashir's bashed finger meant Stokes had to spring into action.
From BBC ● May 23, 2025
To the west meandered the river Strom, glittering like a silver ribbon in the golden sun.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
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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
“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
Aged 10, he was introduced to the idea of spending several days on a narrowboat meandering through the countryside at a top speed of 4mph.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
There were no confusing, meandering statements with him.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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