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as in wandered
to move about from place to place aimlessly
maundered all over town on his day off
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as in rambled
to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point
ask her a question and she'll maunder for half an hour
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as in complained
chiefly British
to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely
a couple of mates maundering over their beer in a dark corner of the pub
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The back parking lot, once a nasty no man’s land where drunken customers wandered off to urinate, has recently been transformed into a performance space that has hosted small gigs including Duane Betts.—
Jimmy Jellinek,
SPIN,
27 Apr. 2026 -
But, as Chen and Shrivastava wandered a Texas restaurant conference, a Dallas heating and air company called Rescue Air found them.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
27 Apr. 2026
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During the State of the Union, the top federal employee bullied, bragged and rambled for 107 minutes.—
Milly Dawson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 Mar. 2026
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One day in July, Mitchell rambled about his mother’s house when Smart blurted out that Wright lived in the same neighborhood.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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But Republicans have long complained that Democrats have used the law to get winnable districts for their Black voters in red states that Republican-leaning white voters could never receive in blue states.—
Nicholas Riccardi,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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This poll also marks the fifth straight year Americans complained things are getting worse, not better.—
Jessica Guynn,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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Escaped inmates roamed the streets of New Orleans under the watch of surveillance cameras.—
Patrick Smith,
NBC news,
30 Apr. 2026
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In 2011, a cougar that had roamed the Northland two years earlier was found struck and killed on a Connecticut highway — more than 1,000 miles away.—
Jimmy Lovrien,
Twin Cities,
30 Apr. 2026
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After being rattled into 19 turnovers in Game 2, Orlando played with pace without panic — exactly what coach Jamahl Mosley demanded.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Apr. 2026
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DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that rattled Wall Street last year, has been at the center of such accusations.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
24 Apr. 2026
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Mostly left off the list were Washington’s supporters — who loudly screamed and chanted in the gallery.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2026
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Everything about his presence screamed that rebuilding this bridge at record speed carried intense political weight for him.—
Torrey Snow,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Apr. 2026
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By Wednesday’s Game 5 of this first-round playoff series against the Toronto Raptors, the motto had drifted down toward the bottom of the giveaways, and the font size shrank.—
Eric Koreen,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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Their most familiar neighbor was the occasional manatee that drifted by their home.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
28 Apr. 2026
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The Capitals scored shortly after that hit and went on to win Game 4 to claim a 3-1 series lead.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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The Hawks went on to outscore them, 20-9, through the rest of regulation.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Maundered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maundered. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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