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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

From a certain point of view, it makes sense to concentrate the art into discrete thematic galleries, and to treat the space between them as flowing interstitial fluid through which the visitor can meander happily.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 29, 2025

Grief, too, steers us, a cleansing ritual, as I recall each time my wife and I meander beneath Green-Wood’s leafy canopy, parakeets swooping and chattering overhead, or sit quietly in its hushed chapel.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 30, 2025

A silver thread of river bisected the field and there, nestling in the fold of a meander loop, was the proud oak.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

“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

By late afternoon, the final miles carry me east toward the Colorado River, where it meanders past willow and cottonwood.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 7, 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

It leads through the front doors and turns into a hallway, which meanders between rows of lockers and classrooms on both sides, finally entering the always-open door to first period.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher

Hawking could intuit the mathematics that describes the fabric of spacetime, but in that earlier book he sometimes forgot that the rest of us could not do the same, and meandered into distracting mathematical discussions.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 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

Even though there were moments when this meandered like a pre-season friendly, there were still positives for England to take.

From BBC May 24, 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

I meandered through the streets, which were filling up with end-of-the-workday traffic, and hoped I was headed toward downtown.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

Her one-year appointment as a visiting professor at a college in rural Greensbury, Vt., sets “Country People” in pleasantly meandering motion.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

The meandering routes and Mediterranean scenery of the Hills were a fresh source of amazement, giving rise to monumental depictions of Mulholland Drive and Nichols Canyon in a newly abstract style.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

It also shows that evolution rarely follows a straight path, instead meandering through the ever-changing conditions on our planet.

From Science Daily May 21, 2026

Since then, the 79-year-old Republican has rarely missed an opportunity to discuss the project, frequently meandering in mid-speech on other topics to riff about the architectural details of the proposed facility.

From Barron's Mar. 31, 2026

Three of the volcanic craters had thin ribbons of smoke lazily curling from their insides and meandering toward the sky.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill




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