WENDING Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

wending

verb

present participle of wend

as in proceeding

literary to move from one place to another We wended through the narrow streets.

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Recent Examples of wending On the way to Sam’s Club one morning last fall, Veraza, then 25, encountered a caravan of federal agents that had spent the morning wending through Little Village. — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026 This term connotes, among other things, the zig-zag method of running to evade bullets or the trajectory of a getaway driver wending through traffic. — Niela Orr, Vulture, 20 July 2026 Scattered through the book is a catalog of trinkets collected by Helm, wending through eight storylines exploring the effect of matter around us, and our effect on matter. — The Know, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 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

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Verb

The answers offer the latest sign that Raman has been proceeding with caution on some of the DSA’s litmus test issues.

— David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026
Even where data centers are proceeding at a robust clip and creating the most jobs public opinion has turned against them.

— Kevin Williams, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of proceeding

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What Brian and Dougal don’t know is that Lovat has actually double-crossed the MacKenzies; Lovat has secretly aligned with the Crown to betray the Jacobite forces, marching both men directly into a deadly trap.

— Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
From feeding hobos on the back porch in the night in the Great Depression to marching against wars for oil in the Eighties and Nineties.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of marching

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Soon, crew who had been traveling on the plane stepped in to stabilize it, issuing a mayday call and seeking a place to land.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
Two people died and one remains missing after a medical transport helicopter traveling from Catalina Island to the mainland crashed into the Pacific on Wednesday; two others were rescued and stable.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of traveling

Verb

The Malibu City Council declared a local emergency in November 2023 over dangerous conditions on PCH, weeks after a speeding driver struck and killed four Pepperdine University students along the highway.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Futurist Ramez Naam, writing on Noahpinion, argues the labs’ data shows AI speeding up coding far more than research.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of speeding

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Venus has everything to do with our finances and relationships, and when journeying through this Water sign, there is an undeniable aura of intensity surrounding these areas of life.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2026
Many of the missing are Hindu pilgrims, who were journeying to Kailash Mansarovar, a high-altitude site in Tibet revered by Hindus and Buddhists.

— Diaa Hadid, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of journeying

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The top tier of college football, known now as the Football Bowl Subdivision, resembles the professional game more with each passing year, prompting calls to implement rules to better manage the sport.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
His Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc trailed behind, also passing the second Red Bull and fully salvaging Ferrari’s day.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026

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