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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
Thin ribbons of silky scrambled egg, cut from an egg crêpe, wend their way through the dish, too, and you can order another protein à la phad Thai, but you don’t need to.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
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
And in this way a civilization might slowly wend its way like a vine among the worlds.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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
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
Driving west from El Hormiguero toward the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, the road wends through ceibas, strangler figs, and sapodillas, a tree prized since Maya times for its chicle gum.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023
Friedkin may have approached this milieu with an outsider’s naivete, but crucially, the evil that wends its way through “Cruising” is merely in this world, not of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
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
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
I hopped on a bus for the 40-minute ride, gazing out the window as we wended our way through timeworn residential areas and past Soviet-era panel housing estates.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
Between December 1532 and May 1533, caravans of precious objects—jewelry, fine sculptures, architectural ornamentation— wended on llama-back to Cajamarca.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Watch the video to learn what went wrong, and what the future holds for fan-favorite franchises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
After leaving a club, the men crossed paths with the woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, at a fast-food restaurant and they all went to the beach.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
An October 1992 Texaco refinery explosion in Wilmington blew out windows, shook houses like an earthquake and puffed out potentially toxic vapor that went downwind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The company imploded and the stock went to zero “with little preamble,” Grantham wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
The mule driver went on with his business.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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
In Sacramento, the blue Easter morning seemed always to rhyme with the gospel account of the three Marys wending their way through a garden to discover an empty tomb.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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