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meandering

[mee-an-der-ing] / miˈæn dər ɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
rambling
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Meandering ocean currents play an important role in the melting of Antarctic ice shelves, threatening a significant rise in sea levels.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024

Meandering through the marketplace, you’ll find all sorts of goods, including art, clothing and jewelry, as well as home, health and beauty items.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2023

Meandering through the bustling traffic in Nigeria's main city, Lagos, Oyewumi Azeez Olawale makes his way to a visa appointment.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2023

Meandering and momentum-sapping, the backstories imbue the protagonists with pathos by burdening the reader with exposition.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2023

Meandering, non-narrative prose or poetry, like musical symphonies, would not find their literary equivalents until James Joyce’s Ulysses or T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, both published in 1922.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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