wade
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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
“I would never wade into that because I won’t sell anything that I think could lead to harm, and we don’t know enough about them.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Fishermen say they now need to wade into the water to walk along the coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Most of the Little Shady was shallow enough to wade.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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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
Van Der Beek wades through all of the screenplay’s cynicism in search of something deeper and more complicated — something human.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026
The RSS also wades into economic and foreign policy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
Pagels is conversant with every version of the gospels — even the most obscure — and wades through them with forensic thoroughness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
Neumann One brakes, and Volkheimer postholes out into the snow, speaks to a guard, and wades in among the prisoners, usually wearing only a shirt against the cold.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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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
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
In Dhunge, Navraj Upretti waded through knee-high sludge towards his home, flanked by two rescuers carrying shovels by his side.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Workers waded through a rubbish-filled river in Manila, collecting waste that washed in during days of heavy rain.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
I waded into the pond, shivering as the cool water rose higher on my legs.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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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
Make no mistake: America’s biggest theater chain wading into the indie film distribution business is a bold, risky move that suggests a dedication to both the art of cinema and the curious moviegoer.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Numbers of the largest European wading birds have declined by about 50% since 1995, according to the British Trust for Ornithology, putting the curlew on the organisation's conservation concern red list.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
I knew better, and I’d texted him anyway, and now I was confusing this poor kid who didn’t have a clue what he was wading into.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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