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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
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
Recently, however, I once again came across a figure from the McCarthy era who did indeed notice, but bear with me as I slowly wend my way toward him.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2023
When the Weird Sisters finished playing at midnight, everyone gave them a last, loud round of applause and started to wend their way into the entrance hall.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
The exhibition, which wends through eight contiguous galleries, begins with a visual overture, seven pictures that preview what’s ahead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
From the cynicism and compromises of middle age, the show wends its way back to the innocence and idealism of young adulthood.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
There, the Dnipro now wends through a mucky patchwork of about 9000 newly formed small lakes and ephemeral ponds.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 3, 2024
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
The Case of the Overinflated Basketballs wended its way through the New Jersey system.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2023
He wended his way around a tall mass of Bald Cypress tree parts sourced from a swamp in Louisiana.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
Sunrise was only an hour away, but the streets were crowded as she wended her way from East to West Stave.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
One of them went to Mar Vista resident Sisa Salazar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
We went after the renovation, and I was working in the South Tower on the 47th floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Princess Diana's brother said King Charles "went ballistic" during a phone call with him in the days after his sister's death.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
My husband and I went to see it anyway, and when the house lights came up we immediately vowed to stop others from making our mistake.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Her whole body began to shake, and her eyes went milky white.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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
Heaving dirt from a pit, I would hear on another man’s breath some song half-sung in time to his swing; the engineers called their instructions, wending their way through our deep, loamy fosses.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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