Thesaurus results for SNAKING

snaking

verb

present participle of snake

as in lurking

to move about in a sly or secret manner snaking softly through the brush

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as in creeping

to move slowly with the body close to the ground commandos snaking through the grass toward the house

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Recent Examples of snaking Those facilities include long plastic silobags snaking across fields and towering metal grain elevators that are themselves increasingly vulnerable to military strikes. — Jenni Reid, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026 By Wednesday afternoon, the line for visitor passes to get on base for the ship’s homecoming stretched several hundred feet, snaking across the lawn in front of the building and doubling back on itself. — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 8 Oct. 2026 Paths wind through a pebbled courtyard and stunning garden, first leading you past the hotel’s cafe, then snaking its way to the main building’s lobby. — Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Oct. 2026 Fighting along the roughly 780-mile front line snaking through northern, eastern and southern Ukraine has been virtually deadlocked in recent months. — Susie Blann, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026 Fighting along the roughly 1,250-kilometer (780-mile) front line snaking through northern, eastern and southern Ukraine has been virtually deadlocked in recent months. — ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026 Lincoln Road has the street space to entertain snaking lines of excited locals and visitors. — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026 This city is already a freaky liminal space full of snaking pathways that are almost incomprehensible. — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026 And the talk drew far and away the longest lines of the festival, snaking around four city blocks an hour before showtime. — Marlow Stern, Variety, 17 Sep. 2026

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The most profitable service targets authors lurking outside the notoriously gatekept realm of traditional publishing.

— Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 13 Oct. 2026
However, the modern versions that are packed with high explosives and sit lurking under the dirt to blow up unwary vehicles or pedestrians are much nastier affairs.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of lurking

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Finally, while work is underway to build a formal framework for economic espionage, Congress must prevent any creeping erosion of the existing norm through the potentially corrupt dissemination of intelligence to favored companies.

— DAVID S. COHEN, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026
Yep, there are more and more signs creeping in by the election cycle.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of creeping

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Kids made good accomplices, tasked with sneaking off on a hunt for the bill.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
At 15, Mariana de Miguel was already sneaking into Mexico City’s nightlife with a fake ID, saving money to see the bands that shaped her imagination.

— Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of sneaking

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At the hospital, an insect fell from the girl’s shoe, and a staffer saw a cockroach crawling on her, the district attorney’s office said.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Of course, an extra three-quarters of an inch clearance and some elastic straps do not transform a unibody, front-biased crossover into an invincible rock-crawling monster.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2026

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With primary colors and winter gear Wondering how to avoid sliding across the sidewalk or catching a cold and still stay fashionable in extreme weather conditions?

— Catie Pusateri, Glamour, 12 Oct. 2026
The rooms Every single one of the 75 rooms is ocean-facing, with floor to ceiling sliding glass doors framing the view, and leading to private terraces perched above the mangroves.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of sliding

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Since the nineteen-nineties, a Korean New Wave had been praised for embedding capitalist critique in movies packed with monsters, slithering octopuses, killers, and killer cops.

— E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Officials issued the alert Monday after a man shared with police an image appearing to show the dangerous reptile slithering from the thin branch of a tree onto the roof of a backyard shed.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of slithering

Verb

But a few months later, at her 18-month appointment, the standard graph that plotted a child’s weight against their age showed her weight slipping off the curve.

— Raj Panjabi, Time, 13 Oct. 2026
If one hook isn’t enough to keep the bag from slipping, place another one on the opposite side.

— Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2026

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