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meander

[mee-an-der] / miˈæn dər /


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Seeing the new meander on the farmland is a big moment, he said, adding "it's nice to give something back".

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

"Especially species that rely on more natural gravels and variation within the channel - that's the benefit of the meander."

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

This team isn’t built to meander through the opening weeks of the season.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 22, 2026

“The way she flows and wanders and her melodies meander — I was massively inspired by that when ‘CTRL’ came out,” Young says of SZA’s 2017 LP.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 10, 2025

The smell of chickpea sauce begins to meander into the living room, and I spring up.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

“Land” regains traction when it returns to Ireland and to its mythic theme, which meanders from the Neolithic era to the 20th century, with detours to more fantastical regions.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

George, a top agent at a London intelligence agency, meanders through the chimeric bowels of a posh nightclub, hunting for a contact who’s got some bad news waiting.

From Salon Mar. 14, 2025

But it also meanders quite a lot, and is somewhere between a self-help book and a stream of anecdotes.

From BBC Jan. 30, 2025

Drive through enough neighborhoods in Los Angeles, and you might notice an odd phenomenon: In front of some newer apartment and commercial buildings, the street is slightly wider, and the sidewalk meanders around the indentation.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 26, 2024

But those walks were disciplined; they were not meanders of discovery like Vincent’s on the heath.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

Carolers meandered through town, drawing no more than a dozen onlookers as they sang “Angels We Have Heard on High” and asked shop owners whether holiday crowds might return.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 21, 2025

“But we’d meandered away from the band in so many different ways that maybe it would have been another three, four, five years.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2025

Much of the third Test had meandered and drifted, only for a super Sunday to set up a potentially manic Monday.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2025

As the Test meandered on a sunny Friday afternoon in Nottingham, Bashir's bashed finger meant Stokes had to spring into action.

From BBC May 23, 2025

The children wandered up and down while Stewart and Dicey sat watching the little waves that meandered up onto the smooth sand.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

"Kank lived in a landscape of meandering rivers and streams with seasonal ponds, inhabited by aquatic plants such as water lilies and animals including fish, insects, and various molluscs," says Dr. Motta.

From Science Daily May 29, 2026

Condos, like other properties, shot up in value earlier in the pandemic but have been moving sideways in L.A. for the last two years, with the median price meandering around $700,000 for a two-bedroom condominium.

From Los Angeles Times May 13, 2026

There's a lot of flakiness in their make-up, possibly too many players spending too much time meandering through games.

From BBC Apr. 27, 2026

His lines are lazy, woozy, all-forgiving reportage about the seasons’ slow parade, the meandering ongoingness of our world: arrival, decay and the modest glory in between.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

I make my way toward her, meandering through the narrow path, stepping over the clutter.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day




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