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Recent Examples of wend Its remnants continued to wend their way north, carrying with them moisture from the Gulf. Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 12 July 2025 The 80-year-old loved to kayak along the crystal clear waterway that wends some 250 miles from the springs of Texas Hill Country to the Gulf’s San Antonio Bay. Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 9 July 2025 If the musicians’ visibility and viability has shifted, Sparks’ music remains inventive, brainy and flamboyant pop, often born of sunshiny moments and wistful memories that wend their way into lyrics. Katherine Turman, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025 There are easy walks to challenging hikes open most of the year that wend through hardwood forests, ridges of dunes and extensive wetlands. Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 15 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wend
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Verb
  • Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has pitched the short-term extension as a way to keep the government open so negotiations can proceed on fuller budget talks and cross-party negotiations on the expiring Obamacare subsidies.
    Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The Epstein reference in this week’s new lawsuit might give the Times an opening to question Trump about the matter if the case proceeds to the deposition phase.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Cougars got the ball to start and marched down the field and scored.
    Cody Thorn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of buckling to the pressure, McCarthy and company marched down the field and put together three impressive scoring drives.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Cutting an image that contrasted with Ali’s more libertine act, Frazier traveled with his family, including his teenage son, Marvis, an aspiring boxer himself.
    Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The center of the storm is likely to travel outside the cone up to 33% of the time.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Lucky went 1,500 days in the shelter without being adopted, then everything changed.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Before all that happened, though, there was the eight-course dinner, which went totally fine as predicted.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Army soldiers, even those in non-combat jobs or those who lack previous firearms experience, must pass a rifle marksmanship test that includes targets as far as 325 yards away after mere days of training.
    Will Carless, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Two games in, though, the Packers have passed both tests with flying colors.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Anduril highlights that the architecture also speeds software updates.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The worst issue is that The Portal, with changes meant to speed up progression, allegedly, launched giving everyone less powerful drops, making the new power climb ridiculous.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Wend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wend. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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