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wander

[won-der] / ˈwɒn dər /




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So we kind of just walk and wander the neighborhoods or go to a park.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

I would wander in with my perfectly sized tote, allow whatever charmed me to determine dinner and wait for the ingredients to organize themselves.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

They wander among the houses -- painted mostly in shades of white, yellow or brown -- and go biking or hiking in the surrounding hills of central Slovakia.

From Barron's Jul. 3, 2026

To collect baseline brain activity before the meditation, the researchers had me focus on a spot on the wall for two minutes, then close my eyes and let my mind wander for four more minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

I wander off a bit before anyone can give me my next task to do.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

As disturbing is what becomes of the narrator himself, who seems nearly comatose as he wanders the streets of Jerusalem in an endless search for the still-missing Gavriel.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

“Spirited Away” is a story of a girl, Chihiro, who wanders with her parents into a magical realm and ends up getting stuck there when her mother and father transform into pigs.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

At 100, Attenborough no longer wanders the world's jungles and deserts.

From Barron's May 6, 2026

It can stay still for hours, striking only when prey wanders too close.

From BBC Mar. 25, 2026

He wanders through the circus like a man in a dream.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

One day in 2021, the couple had left the front door of their restored 1887 Monrovia home open and Baker wandered in uninvited.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

The discovery began with an exceptionally bright flare produced when a star wandered too close to a massive black hole and was ripped apart by its intense gravity.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

On June 8, the roughly two-dozen people who showed up for the auction wandered around the outside of the house as best they could.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

But when the kick-off was delayed from 01:00 to 02:00, Merry said her husband wandered off for a nap.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

“Okay, what now?” said Razi, coming to a halt near some wilderness where whistling spur fowl wandered underfoot.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

Murphy was first spotted living beneath a bush before wandering into the car park of The Old Windmill pub in the city centre, "rake thin" and in need of care.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2026

Only three months later, it identified the event that led them to the wandering black hole.

From Science Daily Aug. 6, 2026

Hours before President Trump is scheduled to headline a Tuesday evening fundraiser at his Palos Verdes golf course, authorities announced they had arrested an armed individual seen wandering the grounds Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

On my recent rereading of “The Secret Garden,” I was delighted by the moment when Mary, initially pale and peevish and uninterested in her breakfast, begins wandering the grounds with a jump rope in hand.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2026

“I suppose I ought to find out when her birthday is. Blast! I hope I didn’t write it in the almanac. It’s a slippery book, that almanac, always wandering off....”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood




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