as in to proceed
literary
to move from one place to another
We wended through the narrow streets.
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Recent Examples of wend
Those plumes were slowly wending their way down to an aquifer that could affect all potable water in the Florida Keys.
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airmail.news, 24 Feb. 2024
As the case wended its way through Brooklyn federal court, Ayende dropped out of the suit, forfeiting any settlement awards.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
Later this year, the skull formerly known as Aquinas’ will wend its way back to its permanent place of rest, buried under the altar of the Dominican church in Toulouse, France.
—Therese Cory, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
Serra navigated to the store from his Kendall home, wending his way through bumpy roadways under construction and leading into rapidly changing neighborhoods.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
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airmail.news, 24 Feb. 2024
As the case wended its way through Brooklyn federal court, Ayende dropped out of the suit, forfeiting any settlement awards.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
Later this year, the skull formerly known as Aquinas’ will wend its way back to its permanent place of rest, buried under the altar of the Dominican church in Toulouse, France.
—Therese Cory, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
Serra navigated to the store from his Kendall home, wending his way through bumpy roadways under construction and leading into rapidly changing neighborhoods.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wend
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Despite a slower start to the season, which featured losses to Kentucky and Kansas in the team’s first six games, the Blue Devils proceeded to win every other game except for one against Clemson in February.—
Tyler Small,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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The paper proceeds to paste together a transhistorical collage of names (Aristotle, Carl Linnaeus, Giovanni Morelli, Giorgio Vasari) in the service of the idea that partnership between the arts and science (both undefined) has an illustrious genealogy.—
Sonja Drimmer,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
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On Sunday, Reed and activists will march from the City of St. Jude Church to the steps of the State Capitol, retracing the historic route marchers took in 1965.—
Axios,
Axios,
21 Mar. 2025
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What To Know According to his attorney, Reyes Barrios marched in two demonstrations against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in February and March 2024.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
20 Mar. 2025
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In the seventeenth century, for example, people of all classes made pilgrimages to temples and shrines, visited hot springs for health reasons, and traveled to see the sights of the country.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Mar. 2025
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If any of the men in black and white lacked motivation, the merest glances to the fans who’d traveled in their droves from the North-east would refuel them in an instant.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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If that snood suddenly shortens, your gobbler has gone from relaxed to alert, and the jig might be up.—
Alice Jones Webb,
Outdoor Life,
21 Mar. 2025
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That game was just the start of an epic back-and-forth that’s seen the coaches meet in two Final Fours — and win one apiece; go head-to-head in the NBA and Conference USA; and later share a state when Pitino led Louisville and Calipari helmed Kentucky.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
21 Mar. 2025
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Background Congress passed the CTA after years of discussion over the problems created by anonymous shell companies, including money laundering and drug trafficking.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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New settlements in the West Bank Israel’s Cabinet passed a measure creating 13 new settlements in the occupied West Bank by rezoning existing ones, according to Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far-right finance minister, who is in charge of settlement construction.—
Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Mar. 2025
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This speeds up diagnostic processes, ensures timely reporting and facilitates rapid decision-making in emergency cases.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
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Without intervention in the form of sustainable solutions, this trend could speed up at a more harmful rate.—
Hany Naeem,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Wend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wend. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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