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We wended through the narrow streets.
We wended our way through the narrow streets.
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Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
This confusion lay in the speech’s weaving, wending contradictions, and its shifts between tones, something Foster purposefully aimed for in telling the story of her life from child stardom to adult disaffection.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
Some of those have been coming here for 40 years, and all of them know to wend their way up the spiral staircase for a tarot card reading between courses.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2025
The Hayes suit, which was filed against the president, his reelection campaign and the activist group Turning Point Action, is continuing to wend its way through federal court in Atlanta.
—Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
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Legal challenges to constitutional doctrines underpinning the modern American administrative state wend their way through increasingly sympathetic courts, promising sweeping changes to the ways our most important institutions act.
—Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
This confusion lay in the speech’s weaving, wending contradictions, and its shifts between tones, something Foster purposefully aimed for in telling the story of her life from child stardom to adult disaffection.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
Some of those have been coming here for 40 years, and all of them know to wend their way up the spiral staircase for a tarot card reading between courses.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2025
The Hayes suit, which was filed against the president, his reelection campaign and the activist group Turning Point Action, is continuing to wend its way through federal court in Atlanta.
—Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Wend.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wend. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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