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meander

[mee-an-der] / miˈæn dər /


NOUN
winding course, zigzag
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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

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

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

After the ceremony, I walked back to the river and watched it meander on its way to where, many miles distant, it emptied into the Indian Ocean.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

By late afternoon, the final miles carry me east toward the Colorado River, where it meanders past willow and cottonwood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

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

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

John and Theresa Anderson meandered through the sprawling Ralph Lauren clothing store on Rodeo Drive, shopping for holiday gifts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

The England duo smartly meandered along, taking 106 runs in the session compared to the rampant flow of runs earlier.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 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

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

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

There were no confusing, meandering statements with him.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi




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