wind up

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If you’re lucky, not too much of the medicine will wind up dripping down your adorable creature’s chin.

From Slate • May 17, 2026

It will be interesting to see how they fare once SpaceX begins trading and how quickly these funds wind up adding the stock to their portfolios.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Once a school is staffed with a rootEd adviser, students are 54% less likely to wind up in low-skill, low-paying jobs than before, according to rootEd data.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Stocks with a particular pattern of implied volatility heading into earnings could wind up surprising the market.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

“You’re having radiation. Your immune system is still weak. And all those people there. All those germs. What if you get a cold and it turns into pneumonia and you wind up in the hospital?”

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman