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wend

[wend] / wɛnd /
VERB
proceed
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG




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Others say he may be content with the havoc wrought while doomed cases wend their way through the justice system.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2025

The Afghans wend through about a dozen countries, for months or longer.

From New York Times May 21, 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

And in this way a civilization might slowly wend its way like a vine among the worlds.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

But as Jacy dithers and stalls in the July heat, so does the story, even as it wends toward the feverish, improbable rush of its climax.

From New York Times May 25, 2023

Arthur was crying the same wends again and again, holding gruff Gawaine by the elbow and putting them into his ear.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

While the freeway’s fate wended through years of court and political hearings, the transportation agency rented some houses while allowing others to remain vacant and fall into disrepair.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2024

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

Sunrise was only an hour away, but the streets were crowded as she wended her way from East to West Stave.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

She notes that the proportion of food stamps that were overpayments went up by only about 60%.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

“And she went and got the big hit even though she just joined us today. You never know who is going to do it, because everyone is going to play.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 2, 2026

That earned them a place in Uefa Cup qualifying, and they went on to reach the last 32.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

Known as the "Skype mafia" effect, founders and early employees took the experience they gained from the company and went on to start their own companies, inspiring others to do the same.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

“She went out that way. Through the forest, toward the glowing lights.”

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

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

The bullet-scarred pickups raced the sunrise along a rough dirt road wending through a dense pine forest.

From New York Times Apr. 17, 2024

Heaving dirt from a pit, I would hear on another man’s breath some song half-sung in time to his swing; the engineers called their instructions, wending their way through our deep, loamy fosses.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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