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meander

[mee-an-der] / miˈæn dər /


NOUN
winding course, zigzag
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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

"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 month’s Rafale deal is symptomatic of the historic Indian tendency to meander on defense modernization, Sameer Lalwani, an expert on the Indian military at the German Marshall Fund, says in a phone interview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

So every weekend, Disler and her girlfriend have an “adventure day” where they meander around a different neighborhood.

From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2025

As the cool breeze of night set in, neighboring families pulled up plastic lawn chairs to conduct “chair committee” and casually meander over the day’s events without rancor or argument or constant one- upmanship.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

Basically, as the market meanders just below record highs, the internal indicators remain very negative but VIX indicators remain positive.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

He meanders somewhat, especially toward the book’s end, where each chapter seems to cover a point the author didn’t want to leave out but didn’t know how to put in seamlessly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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

The top half of Virginia is bisected by the Rappahannock River, which meanders from the Blue Ridge Mountains in the north and empties into Chesapeake Bay.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

Liu meandered through the park using a few different trails, including the Sunrise Lakes route, to reach her ultimate destination: Half Dome on her birthday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The jet stream has meandered well to the north of the UK, allowing high pressure to build and warm air to drift in from south.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

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

“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

He had no destination in mind and simply meandered around the city in a leisurely fashion.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Any trip should involve a hike in Chautauqua Park, or a long, meandering bike ride along the Boulder Creek Path.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 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

Thus for the next two days I kept to the forest, only now and then meandering off at short distances in search of food.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi


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