WADE Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

wade

verb

Definition of wade

as in to trudge

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Recent Examples of wade As the mitigation work continued, a contractor took off his socks and shoes and rolled up his pants to his knees and proceeded to wade into the pool to place an ozone nanobubble tube as tourists and locals milled about on a sunny morning. — ABC News, 16 June 2026 The Narrows is a gorgeous river hike in Utah's Zion National Park, where visitors wade through water flanked by canyon walls rising up to 1,000 feet. — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2026 Depending on how conversations continue and whether the council is divided over staff recommendations, Harrington might wade directly into the issue, too. — Nick Sullivan july 1, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2026 El Paso sits in a verdant opening between arid mountains at the westernmost tip of Texas, at a place where the Rio Grande often runs shallow enough to wade across from Ciudad Juárez, its twin city in Mexico. — Julia Preston, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for wade

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The next morning a young man, who Colocousis said showed up in a Jeep with New York plates, trudged across a thin layer of snow to his doorstep.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 June 2026
Enola dutifully trudges between clues and possibilities, shuffling through crime scenes and racing around shady spaces, all of this much more paint-by-numbers than connect-the-dots.

— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 30 June 2026

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In another moment of the exchange, which was released by authorities and did not include timestamps, Robinson writes about potentially trying to retrieve his rifle but says a law enforcement car is nearby.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 July 2026
Some Palestinians even try to hang food containers on the ceiling of their tents to keep them out of reach.

— Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 5 July 2026

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Beijing has exerted greater institutional control in Tibet since Xi Jinping became the country's president in 2012.

— Kanishka Singh, USA Today, 3 July 2026
Avard grew concerned that the Chinese bottled water company Nongfu Spring, which purchased a more than 375,000 square-foot industrial property in Nashua in 2025, would begin to exert influence over the local political process.

— Max Grinstein, The Washington Examiner, 3 July 2026

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