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wend

[wend] / wɛnd /
VERB
proceed
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG




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District Court in Boston, that had blocked the administration’s slapdash deportations while legal challenges wend through the courts.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2025

The park includes a collection of waterways that wend through marshes and islands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

From New York Times Jun. 29, 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

Recently, however, I once again came across a figure from the McCarthy era who did indeed notice, but bear with me as I slowly wend my way toward him.

From Salon Feb. 23, 2023

And in this way a civilization might slowly wend its way like a vine among the worlds.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

Arthur was crying the same wends again and again, holding gruff Gawaine by the elbow and putting them into his ear.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

Actor Zachary Quinto was among the invitees who wended their way through poolside cabanas and hotel rooms to view works from 66 global exhibitors, including L.A.’s Fernberger Gallery, M+B and One Trick Pony.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 29, 2024

Hours later, volunteers in an inflatable boat wended their way through the floodwaters in pitch-darkness as they attempted to reach people caught in flooded homes.

From New York Times Jan. 27, 2023

We talked as we wended our slow way through the wild bit of forest behind the inn.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

She notes that the proportion of food stamps that were overpayments went up by only about 60%.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

“I went up to her. She’s the same person she has always been. Just super high energy. I told her to throw a strike, and she was like, ‘You know I will throw a strike.’

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 2, 2026

Jones remembers the May 2016 night when he went into hospital – he was supposed to go out to a dinner with his wife Eileen, but he stayed at home as he felt unwell.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

Fifth place went to "Moana," Disney's latest live-action remake of one of its animated hits, with $5.3 million.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

From the courthouse, Sancho and the official party went to the palace that was to become his residence.

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

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

The bullet-scarred pickups raced the sunrise along a rough dirt road wending through a dense pine forest.

From New York Times Apr. 17, 2024

They watched the rest of the family wending their way down the trail, Tao still clutched in Elizabeth’s arms, gentle worshiping Luath restored at last to the longed-for position at his master’s heels.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford




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