wander
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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
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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
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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
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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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