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If the musicians’ visibility and viability has shifted, Sparks’ music remains inventive, brainy and flamboyant pop, often born of sunshiny moments and wistful memories that wend their way into lyrics.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2025
The park includes a collection of waterways that wend through marshes and islands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
Currently, most designs for Arctic shipping routes have vessels sticking close to the edge of the ice as they wend their way through the sea.
From Scientific American ● May 1, 2023
Recently, however, I once again came across a figure from the McCarthy era who did indeed notice, but bear with me as I slowly wend my way toward him.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2023
“I was never your father nor of your blood, but I wote well ye are of an higher blood than I wend ye were.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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The exhibition, which wends through eight contiguous galleries, begins with a visual overture, seven pictures that preview what’s ahead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
As the case wends its way through the courts, the government has not yet made good on its threat to break up NCAR's various labs, which currently employ about 800 people.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
From the cynicism and compromises of middle age, the show wends its way back to the innocence and idealism of young adulthood.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
Later the saxophonist José Carlos Cruzata Revé wends his way through a cohort of dancers, as if it’s right where he belongs.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
Finally he wends his way back, alone, to the lounge.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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The SUV drove me through an airport security gate and wended its way past rows of planes and runways before dropping me alongside the American Airlines 737 taking me to Phoenix.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Khamenei's funeral procession wended its way slowly through central Tehran, from Imam Hossein Square in the east to Azadi Square in the west, on the last of three days of public mourning in the capital.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
When the skinny robot wended its way through the hole in the ice – made by a jet of hot water – the cameras showed not just the melting water, the crucial crevasses and seabed.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
Hours later, volunteers in an inflatable boat wended their way through the floodwaters in pitch-darkness as they attempted to reach people caught in flooded homes.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
The three of them wended west, tromping through the black water.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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Roebuck went through several surgeries during his first week in the hospital and, all told, spent more than a month in medical care.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
I went out for dinner with my chairman, Peter Coates, and he said how Hull had made a wonderful start.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
She has helped a lot, but things weren’t done in a timely way — that is, not anticipating his needs before he went on Medicare.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Most of the bypassed oil went through the East-West pipeline, which played a bigger role in tamping down crude prices than the IEA’s emergency stock release, or the collapse in Chinese oil demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The cloak, of course, had been Clare’s, and it provided Gingersnipes with a comfort that went much deeper than fur and flesh.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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A proposal to ban social media for children under 15 is currently wending its way through parliament in France.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
Mr. Crytzer’s narrative hums along with the National Road’s traffic as he colorfully describes Pony Express riders, stagecoaches, Conestoga wagons and many thousands of migrants wending ever westward, feeding the nation’s economic and territorial growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Another, brought by eight deputies who alleged they were routinely harassed by the Banditos is wending its way toward trial after a judge decided last year the case could move forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2024
Of the thousands of interorgan messages wending through the body, a few stand out as the most promising for therapies.
From Science Magazine ● May 22, 2024
It was not long until the first of the brothers from the Shadow Tower began wending their way up the slope.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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