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wend

[wend] / wɛnd /
VERB
proceed
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG




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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

About 30,000 people each year visit anyway, according to a city study, most of them trespassing for more than a mile along oily train tracks that wend along the Sacramento River.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2025

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

And there would wend Mitt, the child of ceaseless movement, leafy stick in hand, poking beneath the shady skirts of the trees for the smallest signs of life.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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

But as Jacy dithers and stalls in the July heat, so does the story, even as it wends toward the feverish, improbable rush of its climax.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2023

Finally he wends his way back, alone, to the lounge.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

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

While the freeway’s fate wended through years of court and political hearings, the transportation agency rented some houses while allowing others to remain vacant and fall into disrepair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024

I hopped on a bus for the 40-minute ride, gazing out the window as we wended our way through timeworn residential areas and past Soviet-era panel housing estates.

From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2022

Sunrise was only an hour away, but the streets were crowded as she wended her way from East to West Stave.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

He went to Pakistan in July 2025 and did not return for his trial in September of that year, despite being ordered to fly back to the UK by the judge.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Two picked up tactical trends, while another fundamental indicator went into their more diversified quant macro strategy.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Yocheved Ruttenberg grew up in Baltimore, went by “Kim,” and was selling roofing door-to-door in Texas when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

These special editions, slim enough to slip into a pocket, went everywhere men were under arms, from cockpits to foxholes—even to prisoner-of-war camps in Europe and Asia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

ONCE, there was a man who went crazy from too much reading.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

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

Another, brought by eight deputies who alleged they were routinely harassed by the Banditos is wending its way toward trial after a judge decided last year the case could move forward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2024

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

Jon caught up to Mormont as he was wending his way around a hawthorn thicket.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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