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to move from one place to another
We wended through the narrow streets.
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Recent Examples of wends
In the first onscreen interaction between them, Rue, now working as a drug mule for a dealer named Laurie (Martha Kelly), wends her way through a labyrinthine house party before meeting Alamo, sitting in a hot tub, flanked by four strippers, and wearing a Speedo and a cowboy hat.
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Molly Lambert,
Vulture,
20 Apr. 2026
Late Thursday night the Taliban’s military launched attacks on Pakistani positions along some sections of their porous and disputed border that wends 1,600 miles through rugged mountains and desert.
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Sophia Saifi,
CNN Money,
27 Feb. 2026
Çatak’s anti-state message acquires an ambiguous power as the movie wends onward, with an enigmatic final shot that finds Aziz tasting clear-skies freedom but still from behind confines of a sort.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2026
Earlier this year, Aleah rode for the first time in the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic, a beloved local race that wends into the mountains every Memorial Day weekend.
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Kate Siber,
Outside Online,
4 Sep. 2018
Molly Lambert,
Vulture,
20 Apr. 2026
Late Thursday night the Taliban’s military launched attacks on Pakistani positions along some sections of their porous and disputed border that wends 1,600 miles through rugged mountains and desert.
—
Sophia Saifi,
CNN Money,
27 Feb. 2026
Çatak’s anti-state message acquires an ambiguous power as the movie wends onward, with an enigmatic final shot that finds Aziz tasting clear-skies freedom but still from behind confines of a sort.
—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2026
Earlier this year, Aleah rode for the first time in the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic, a beloved local race that wends into the mountains every Memorial Day weekend.
—
Kate Siber,
Outside Online,
4 Sep. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wends
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There will be an official reception attended by Iraq’s prime minister, senior government officials and religious leaders before the cortege travels to the Imam Ali Shrine, an important pilgrimage site for Shiite Muslims.
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This week, Madonna time travels back to the Eighties and dances the night away at a famous discotheque, R&B crooner Destin Conrad dives into reggae rhythms, and Rico Nasty teams back up with Kenneth Blume for a glittery new track.
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The battles continue as House of the Dragon marches through its third season.
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The tower’s top is wrapped in blocky text — an excerpt from a 2015 speech that Obama gave to mark the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches that Obama has described as one of his most meaningful.
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Then the retreat proceeds, the rules are never mentioned again, and the inevitable breaches go unaddressed.
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Linda Parisi, Blake Rakela’s defense attorney, has asked the court to set bail and allow her client to be released while the criminal case proceeds.
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That water supply is not the same water supply that goes toward agriculture, which accounts for a huge portion of the water used in the country, Anisfeld said.
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Sanders identifies a real free-rider problem, even if his solution goes much too far.
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Frequent mowing keeps clippings small, preventing smothering and speeds up decomposition for reuse.
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The First Alert Weather Team is keeping an eye on this next storm system, just in case the timeline speeds up.
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If your plants are looking wilted or their pots are drying out super-fast, consider temporarily moving them to a lightly shaded section of your patio or garden until the heat wave passes.
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Independence Day morning offers one of the best opportunities in decades, as the distant ice giant passes extraordinarily close to Mars in the predawn sky.
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The sky may be clear during the day, especially in the areas far from the water, but coastal fog is expected to spread far overnight and in the early mornings as the week progresses.
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This evolution progresses from personal assistance to agentic AI, then multi-agent systems, and finally autonomous enterprise AI, unlocking exponential productivity gains.
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There is almost no modern precedent (Steven Speilberg runs Amblin, a production company, not a studio arm.
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The companies have so far reached settlements worth nearly $58 billion, according to a tally kept by Christine Minhee, who runs Opioid Settlement Tracker.
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“Wends.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wends. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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