as in to wander
to move about from place to place aimlessly
theatergoers meandering around the lobby waiting for the play to start
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Recent Examples of meander
Niall Stanage, The Hill, 5 Apr. 2025
Discipline was a priority, as exemplified by a strict dress and hygiene code, no cellphones, investment in computer software that blocked students from meandering from the lesson and serious consequences for plagiarism.
—Martin Potters, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2025
Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
The Cumberland Gap's 85 miles of hiking trails meander through the national park with distances ranging from a 1/4-mile loop trail to the 21-mile-long Ridge Trail.
—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 16 Oct. 2024
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Verb
Musk presented the checks himself amid meandering remarks at a public event in Green Bay last Sunday.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 5 Apr. 2025
Discipline was a priority, as exemplified by a strict dress and hygiene code, no cellphones, investment in computer software that blocked students from meandering from the lesson and serious consequences for plagiarism.
—Martin Potters, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
Energy-intensive enterprises, especially advanced manufacturing, around the upper reaches of the Yellow River, the Hexi Corridor, Yellow River meander, northern Hebei, Songliao, and the lower reaches of the Yellow River especially have opportunities to grow rapidly.
—Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
The Cumberland Gap's 85 miles of hiking trails meander through the national park with distances ranging from a 1/4-mile loop trail to the 21-mile-long Ridge Trail.
—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for meander
Verb
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After a 3-month long girls trip along Florida’s Gulf Coast, a wayward pair of endangered North Atlantic right whales known as Curlew and Koala have finally wandered back to the Atlantic Ocean.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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Alberta is skeptical… until Hetty points out how Pete has been wandering and dating up a storm, was secretly in the mafia and punched Thor in the face after the Viking slept with Carol.—
Vlada Gelman,
TVLine,
24 Apr. 2025
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The possible legal tangle between Minnesota and the Trump administration mirrors a similar situation between the administration and Maine, whose leaders have also refused to follow Trump’s anti-trans sports order.—
Abby Monteil,
Them.,
23 Apr. 2025
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Bateman and his team had been studying tau tangles, the abnormal clumps of protein that form inside the neurons of people with Alzheimer's.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
2 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The other two dogs, who were able to roam the property, were found alive and taken into care.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Apr. 2025
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The dogs were reported by passersby who alerted the KC Pet Project that dogs appeared to be dumped and roaming the area.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Severe storms along the southeast coast Monday have also caused snarls for travelers, with over 6,300 flights within, into, or out of the US delayed Monday, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2025
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The animals’ golden-brown fur is matted with blood, their muzzles locked in an eternal snarl.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
Verb
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All to the excitement of onlookers strolling along the avenue, ending at Rockefeller Center to celebrate the day.—
Tonya Blazio-Licorish,
Footwear News,
18 Apr. 2025
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Walking, riding, limping, trudging, scooting, strolling — all the various forms of low-speed locomotion — define the experience of being in New York.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In 2020, the Justice Department, joined by a group of states, accused Google of illegally stifling competition by paying the makers of web browsers and phones to set Google as their default search engine.—
John Ruwitch,
NPR,
20 Apr. 2025
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Our primary overall benchmark, UL's PCMark 10, puts a system through its paces in productivity apps ranging from web browsing to word processing and spreadsheet work.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
19 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Texas officials disputed Mexico’s claim that the bodies were tangled in the buoys and said only one body was found and that the person drowned upstream and drifted downstream toward the buoys.—
Anna Giaritelli,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Apr. 2025
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One of the reasons the forward P/E did not fall as much as trailing P/Es is that earnings estimates drifted lower, Clissold noted.—
Yun Li,
CNBC,
16 Apr. 2025
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In the United States alone, navigating the labyrinth of healthcare administrative tasks costs up to $265 billion annually, according to a 2023 McKinsey analysis.—
Jacob Miller,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The 100-acre resort has a 45,000-square-foot waterpark with a labyrinth of waterslides.—
Jacqui Gifford,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Apr. 2025
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“Meander.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meander. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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