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[wind, wahynd, wind] / wɪnd, waɪnd, wɪnd /




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"He is just the most stubborn, funny, resilient little boy. He loves simple things. When the trees move in the wind, it makes him so happy," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

The estimated speed of Mach 0.96 doesn’t account for factors such as air density and wind speed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

This trip down memory lane is entertaining, but does it really matter if 2006 and 2026 wind up being similar?

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

“We remembered the heat, the wind, the rain, and it was really easy to get into character.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

On the car past the calliope a Farmer’s Friend wind stacker blew out circulars and handbills instead of chaff.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Crowds winded through greenways and walking trails, processing through thin paths in single-file lines and dodging annoyed runners and whizzing bikers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Pupil B was described by the former head of girls sport as being winded during the match and nothing more and when she asked Pupil B how she was she said "all good."

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

Why does a brief jog leave some people winded while others seem to glide along with ease?

From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026

Four hours later, sunburned and more winded than I like to admit, I reached a hamlet where I later hitched a ride back to the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2025

I’m cold and wet and winded, but my escape attempt has done nothing to subdue the hysteria rising up inside me.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

Presuming you care to keep your job; and considering the clock is rapidly winding down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

"One way to picture it is that the current "twists" the phase of the coherent quantum state of the superconductor, rather like winding a spring," explains Eryin Wang, lead author of the study.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

He still intends to “share a few cool things I found with some people on Twitter,” he says, but he is winding things down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

In April, Quixote announced it was winding down most of its Los Angeles soundstage business, including its main commercial studio in West Hollywood and its North Valley studio in Pacoima.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

I ran the winding roads to school in the spring and fall, ate rye soup and bread in our steamy kitchen when the snow was too deep.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

The vandal surely didn’t mean to, but Wallace contends that he wound up uniting the neighborhood as never before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

"I am not thinking of it as a wound, I am thinking of it as a journey," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

"I am not looking at this wound like a wound because that would make my recovery even more difficult," Machchhar said.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

I was carrying grief and an old wound from a different part of my life that I had never dealt with.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

From his medicine pouch he took his last scrap of birch bast, and roughly bandaged the wound.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver




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