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wend

[wend] / wɛnd /
VERB
proceed
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG




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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

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

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

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

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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