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meander

[mee-an-der] / miˈæn dər /


NOUN
winding course, zigzag
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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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

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

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

It’s virtually deserted, with just a few random people who seem to meander aimlessly.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

George, a top agent at a London intelligence agency, meanders through the chimeric bowels of a posh nightclub, hunting for a contact who’s got some bad news waiting.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2025

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

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

Just whatever came to his mind as he rhetorically meandered for more than an hour at each rally.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

But Raman’s answers never meandered and weren’t too elliptical, even when she was pressed by the able moderators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Day two started with single track and jeep trails that meandered through rolling, mountainous terrain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 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

He came out on the crest of a hill forming one side of a valley, where a small stream meandered between alder-grown banks.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

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

The river of snowmelt meandering through the center of the settlement was an open sewer.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer


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