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wind

[wind, wahynd, wind] / wɪnd, waɪnd, wɪnd /




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The company says White Fox is "taking advantage" of Adidas's reputation, "drawing an association in the minds of consumers" of the two brands, or at least "sailing close to the wind".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

“Property-tax reductions have been in the wind in a lot of places,” said Jared Walczak, senior fellow at the Tax Foundation and a policy consultant on state tax issues.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Production losses could be offset on the demand side by cooling wind and rain and possible shut-in LNG production, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

“The industrialization of our coastline that offshore wind would create, I think, is just grotesque, and I’m dead against it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

She raced up the slope and rounded the boulder into the teeth of an icy north wind.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Her senses of taste and smell have rebounded, and she gets less winded on hikes with her grandchildren.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

She got winded just climbing the stairs to her bedroom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

Why does a brief jog leave some people winded while others seem to glide along with ease?

From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026

He arrived in India in 1988, a young man seeking work, and has since been winded through cities - Nagpur, Belgaum, Goa, Nasik - before settling in the western metropolis.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025

The seventh-grade classrooms are on the top floor of the school, and we all hate those stairs, but Twig never seems winded by the three-story climb.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

He still intends to “share a few cool things I found with some people on Twitter,” he says, but he is winding things down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

"One way to picture it is that the current "twists" the phase of the coherent quantum state of the superconductor, rather like winding a spring," explains Eryin Wang, lead author of the study.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

On TV, Herbert appeared to be looking off into space on the sideline as McDaniel sat chattering beside him, the game mercifully winding down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

But Backstedt made her battle hard on a long, winding, technical course to secure just the third British medal in the discipline, with Emma Pooley taking gold in 2010 and bronze a year later.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

When Roz returned, Mr. Shareef was watching a school bus winding along the country road.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

Reebok wound up urging retailers to black out the name on boxes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Exposure can occur any time saliva or tissue from the infected animal enters the body, such as through a bite or a scratch, or contact with a wound or the mouth, nose or eyes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

England's World Cup semi-final loss to Argentina felt like the most painful wound of all as the so-called years of hurt stretched to six decades - but the process of recovery has started swiftly.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Our group — two reporters, a photographer and a video journalist — went through security and, camera rolling, wound our way through the maze of the midcentury building.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Da had told us it wound around the coast like a ball of yarn let loose, but if you stayed on it, you’d reach the port and the ships.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff




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