meander
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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
This team isn’t built to meander through the opening weeks of the season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 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
So every weekend, Disler and her girlfriend have an “adventure day” where they meander around a different neighborhood.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2025
“Go on home,” she told her mare, Cinders, who was so gentle and smart that Miss Maggie could ride bareback and then turn her loose to meander home.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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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
“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
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're almost there," my father assured us as we crossed the Vistula, the river that meanders through the city.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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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
“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
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 followed La Llorona along the garden paths that meandered around the backyard, winding in and out and around each other.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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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
Then one day, after meandering home from school, the house was completely empty—Mama and Akira weren’t there like they usually were.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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