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wade

[wayd] / weɪd /


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Officers investigating Sperino's murder realised AI could help them wade through the mountains of evidence they had accumulated since 1993.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Let’s take a wade into the ever-deepening swamp.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

"I worried if my motorbike would be able to wade through floodwater this much."

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Our job is to be like Sheen—to wade through the strife with courage, clarity and heartfelt concern for the souls entrusted to our care.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

They went back the same way they had come, but they did not have to wade through the river.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

Quentin Fottrell — The Moneyist — often wades into treacherous waters to give advice.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

Indonesian villager Octavius wades through the forest in rubber boots and tattered joggers, ears pricked, eyes peeled, a telephoto lens on his phone primed to capture orangutans, monkeys or birds.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Right at the start of the Puerto Rican singer’s performance at Super Bowl LX, as he wades through faux sugarcane fields, he passes a series of small businesses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026

Even when he did write political songs, Bob never wades into the specifics other than “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” where he’s literally telling the story of some tragedy, he most often sings obliquely.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2024

It still hurts when she wades toward the bank.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Then Manila in monsoon season, where Park’s car stalled in floodwater and he and his colleagues waded to safety, bags held over their heads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

As sellers waded through floodwaters to sell produce like fish and vegetables from floating platforms and foam boxes, buyers walked or paddled between the makeshift stalls to buy their groceries.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

In honor of Slate’s 30th anniversary, Luke waded into the comments section and discovered tales of love, loss, and a vanishing form of online community.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

As he’s spoken to audiences of government officials, diplomats, academics and journalists, Dans — who wears his Arctic commission lapel pin and exudes a professorial air — has also waded into foreign policy.

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026

Some 120 sailors from the USS Nantucket, docked at the North End Wharf, raced across the pier and waded through the thick molasses, looking for survivors buried in the wreckage.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

This year's voting season has been marked by intense campaigns that have included politicians spinning cars, watching grannies knit and even wading through giant-sized potholes.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Zegan posted a video of people wading through Frontierland as a cast member tried to unclog a drain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Further southeast, in the On Nut neighbourhood, AFP reporters saw locals wading through knee-high flood waters along a road, as well as filling up sandbags to take home.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

It is just another Tuesday for Jones, a Chicago-area resident who calls himself The Profiler and spends hours daily wading through this kind of online sludge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

It was Clarence, the security guard, wading through the crowd of spectators.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein


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