wade

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Recent Examples of wade Ranking Member Jamie Raskin has waded into into the debate over how to protect kids online. Maria Curi, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025 One tech giant after another has waded into the AI waters in the past two years, but until recently Cisco’s AI strategy was a bit of a mystery to some. Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025 In a small town in western North Carolina, residents told Trump about wading through waist-deep water to escape from their homes while fearing for their lives. Will Weissert, arkansasonline.com, 25 Jan. 2025 The residents told him about wading through waist-deep water to escape from their homes while fearing for their lives. Will Weissert, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for wade 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wade
Verb
  • Tom and Roy spend a lot of time trudging through heaping piles of snow or jumping into a lake that looks abominably cold.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Thousands of poor, tired, anonymous Montgomery women and men, who trudged through winter’s inclement weather and summer’s blistering heat for 381 days, made that boycott a success.
    Paul L. Newman, New York Daily News, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The Warriors eked out a 52-48 victory in the first meeting against Naperville North on Jan. 9, and this game was close for three quarters.
    Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Thao eked out a victory in the election by just 677 votes.
    Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The Padres are trying to win their first World Series trophy.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Stillwater baseball dad tries to turn pain of son’s fentanyl death into hope for others More treatment programs followed — at least a dozen overall.
    Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 16 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • But in Schmitt’s hands, what could have been a straightforward takedown of conservative philanthropic activism is instead a personal meditation on control and the ways that institutions and systems exert control over our beliefs, lives and bodies.
    Shannon L. Bowen, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Post-wildfire landslides can exert great loads on objects in their paths, strip vegetation, block drainage ways, damage structures and endanger human life, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
    Max Golembo, ABC News, 12 Feb. 2025

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