wound up with
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That may help explain how we wound up with “Alice in Wonderland”-style competing proclamations that made it sound as if Xi and Trump had been in different conversations, or perhaps different universes.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
Reaching the Antarctic pole took two tries, one of which wound up with Brown and his crew stranded for nearly a month while storms pummeled their base of operations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
Christie’s specialist Giada Damen, who spent months retracing its paper trail and showing it to Michelangelo experts, said this foot wound up with a Swiss diplomat whose family held onto it for generations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
Can you just talk us through how Wyoming, of all places, wound up with such incredibly robust protection for reproductive freedom?
From Slate • Jan. 10, 2026
Anyway, it had been the young blond woman who'd wound up with the most disturbing story.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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