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“Shekhar, look to your left,” Sanjoy says as the road on which they are traveling first starts to wend its way through woodlands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Thin ribbons of silky scrambled egg, cut from an egg crêpe, wend their way through the dish, too, and you can order another protein à la phad Thai, but you don’t need to.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
The Afghans wend through about a dozen countries, for months or longer.
From New York Times ● May 21, 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
It takes us a long time to wend our way back down the stairs.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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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
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
Friedkin may have approached this milieu with an outsider’s naivete, but crucially, the evil that wends its way through “Cruising” is merely in this world, not of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
Finally he wends his way back, alone, to the lounge.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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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
Actor Zachary Quinto was among the invitees who wended their way through poolside cabanas and hotel rooms to view works from 66 global exhibitors, including L.A.’s Fernberger Gallery, M+B and One Trick Pony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
The Case of the Overinflated Basketballs wended its way through the New Jersey system.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2023
They wended past a wild boar feeding on a guard and a spotted cat that hissed and spit at them but did not draw near.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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During the campaign’s final days, Bass went to venues populated by older voters, including senior centers in West Adams and in Northridge, where she danced with elderly Angelenos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
It is now thirteen months since Buddy went missing and he has still not been found.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
But such warnings apparently went unheeded, cybersecurity experts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Yet Barrett emerged victorious in 2024—helped by the fact that he was no longer taking on the popular Slotkin, who went on to beat Rogers in her bid for the Senate.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
But first things first: Sancho went to the stables to take care of his donkey.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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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
I tramped out of camp by headlamp behind Rob and Frank, wending between ice towers and piles of rock rubble to reach the main body of the glacier.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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