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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

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

The novels meander discursively through time, so it does not matter where one begins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 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

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

“We grab a table outside in the back and our daughter meanders without us feeling annoying.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026

The words repeat themselves around me as the Kawasaki starts up and meanders down the dark, motionless street.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

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

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

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

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

We crossed over the Long Island Expressway to the north side of town, and meandered down side roads until we stopped beside the Quaker meetinghouse.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

I nodded in the direction of the scattered pigs that were meandering through the trees.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss


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