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

Verb

Back then, with no off-ramp in sight in the Middle East, oil was marching higher, stoking inflation fears, and bond yields went along for the ride.

— Zev Fima, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026
Many English, Welsh and Scottish people and most Irish people remained Catholic and thus opposed to the official religion, but the state churches were marching steadily away from them and toward fundamentalist revolution.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 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

At first, people used drum machines as metronomes — to keep a drummer from speeding up or slowing down and to keep everyone on the same rhythmic wavelength.

— Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2026
That industrial network matters because increasing missile output involves more than speeding up final assembly.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 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 Musée de l’Orangerie is celebrating the centennial of Monet’s passing with an exhibit focusing on his art’s relation with time through about 40 paintings.

— Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026
Almost a decade later in its Broadway debut, it’s lost none of that, and White’s production — perhaps inevitably given the arc of those passing years — adds sharpness to its cruelties and weight to its grief.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2026

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