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meander

[mee-an-der] / miˈæn dər /


NOUN
winding course, zigzag
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STRONG


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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 team isn’t built to meander through the opening weeks of the season.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

Reaching anything needing attention can take days or even weeks because the lines that carry water to customers meander through valleys, over ridgelines, and along roadways, many of which remain impassable.

From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024

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

“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

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

It leads through the front doors and turns into a hallway, which meanders between rows of lockers and classrooms on both sides, finally entering the always-open door to first period.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher

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

There was a festival air on this public holiday as families marched and meandered in a warm winter's sun.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 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

The majority of Southern Californians simply assumed William Mulholland must have been someone magnificent because he had such a nice road, which meandered through the wealthiest communities in Los Angeles, named for him.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

Any trip should involve a hike in Chautauqua Park, or a long, meandering bike ride along the Boulder Creek Path.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 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

A herd of elk had walked down the mountain road onto the main street in the village, meandering past stores as if they were souvenir shopping.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman


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