as in wanders
to move about from place to place aimlessly
theatergoers meandering around the lobby waiting for the play to start
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Recent Examples of meanders
Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2025
At Cedar Falls, the creek tumbles off a 70-foot precipice and then meanders through Cedar Creek Canyon into the Petit Jean River to the west.
—Arkansas Online, 13 Dec. 2025
The Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad meanders by the woodlands and along the Cuyahoga River for 26 miles.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2025
Four bedrooms and three bathrooms, plus a powder room, include a lower-level primary suite with a plywood bathroom that opens to a flagstone terrace that meanders over to the pool.
—Mark David, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2025
In a typical four-hour episode, Cabello meanders between attacking opposition politicians, telling jokes and promoting the government’s position.
—Max Saltman, CNN Money, 19 Nov. 2025
The 140 miles of trails (this includes neighboring Lenzerheide resort) are great for beginner and intermediate skiers, but there are of course more challenging runs, including the Black Diamond Slope, which meanders down the mountain for over a mile and a half.
—Chadner Navarro, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
At eight episodes, most running over 50 minutes, Down Cemetery Road feels consistently padded and, especially in its first half, the momentum meanders in frustrating ways.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
My next run was a 5-mile jaunt along the Petit Balcon Sud, a shady trail that, after a short, lung-busting climb, meanders along a ridge just above Chamonix, offering views of the towering Mont Blanc Massif and the towns in the valley below.
—Will Porter, Outside, 13 Sep. 2025
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To get there, hikers walk a section of the Pacific Crest Trail that meanders leisurely under oak trees, along a creek and passes grazing cows.
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Where is that strange, clueless child who wanders from cause to cause, Greta Thunberg?—
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Matt, the dad, wanders off to the kitchen.—
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Despite headwinds like tariffs, supply chain snarls and higher costs for solar panels and other components, Fishman said, the initiative is having an impact.—
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And, two, worldwide supply chain snarls also stemming from the pandemic.—
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Scoop City’s own Dianna Russini roams the sideline.—
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As flares light up the sky, the Deliriant, now a blond hooligan, roams the streets of a port city with Tai Zhaomei (Li Gengxi), a singer and gangster’s moll.—
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But the seven-member volunteer commission — long expected to take the reins from OPD’s federal overseers — still seems to be struggling to gain footing within Oakland’s complex bureaucratic tangles.—
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In the clip, the actress jumped into a pool in a string bikini and demonstrated how to get pesky tangles out of one’s hair with her brand’s Glossing Detangler.—
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So while snow drifts that mound up alongside a properly insulated house with siding shouldn't be a problem, snow against a door leading to the deck may leak.—
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Cafés spill into afternoon sunlight, window-shopping counts as cardio, and live music drifts out of an old pub.—
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Warm days are made for outdoor lunches and park strolls through El Retiro or Casa de Campo, while evenings stretch into tapas crawls and impromptu street performances in La Latina.—
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From pit lane strolls to VIP rooftop views, stars showed up and showed out at one of the biggest sports weekends of the year.—
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Pet sharks and underground labyrinths, unwelcome doppelgängers and vegetable-hungry monster-rabbits, rogue planets heading for Earth and diabolical Red Wizards—what do all these share in common?—
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Her books, with their Borgesian labyrinths and witchy symmetries, sometimes flirt with nonsense.—
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His only book, Portraits in Life and Death (1976), juxtaposed photos of people in his circle and with images of ancient corpses in the Palermo catacombs.—
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For a darker experience in the City of Light, venture beneath Paris and explore its hundreds of miles of catacombs.—
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“Meanders.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meanders. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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