meander
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Then in one-on-one calls with the team, she will ask each the same three questions “with room for the conversation to meander where it needs to go,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
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
The novels meander discursively through time, so it does not matter where one begins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
“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
After the ceremony, I walked back to the river and watched it meander on its way to where, many miles distant, it emptied into the Indian Ocean.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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They were among the 88 temples of the Henro pilgrimage route that traces back 1,200 years and meanders roughly 750 miles around Japan’s fourth-largest island.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
“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
Stranded somewhere in the Midwest with no family, friends or hobbies, Paul wanders into a movie theater that’s playing a cartoon in which Casper the Friendly Ghost meanders to the moon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025
He meanders toward the back of the store, which contains an open door that I believe may in some way be related to "Tokens."
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
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When we met him, he meandered across the field, atrophied by lack of exercise, sat on my foot and looked up with a hopeful demeanor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
John and Theresa Anderson meandered through the sprawling Ralph Lauren clothing store on Rodeo Drive, shopping for holiday gifts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 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
The England duo smartly meandered along, taking 106 runs in the session compared to the rampant flow of runs earlier.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025
“What a mess,” I heard him mutter to himself, trying to shake his pant leg loose of a blackberry vine that had meandered onto the walkway.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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Penna, like so many of the government officials who appear in Oliver Basciano’s moving, if meandering, “Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity, and the Modern World,” took action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Rangers were so flat in the Czech Republic, meandering about like confused men, showing weakness in the tackle and not a scintilla of wit.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
“A resort-style pool, tranquil lily ponds, meandering pathways, shaded terraces, and a full-size tennis court create moments of both recreation and quiet reflection, where the sounds of nature replace the pace of everyday life.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
After a campaign over hundreds of years saw rivers tamed for commercial use, he urged a shift back "toward natural rivers featuring meandering branches and floodplains that retain water across the landscape".
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Instead, the Greeks just saw the terms as simply getting smaller and smaller, meandering outside the realm of numbers.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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