Synonyms for winding
ˈwaɪn dɪŋwind·ing

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1. wind, winding, twistadjective

   the act of winding or twisting

   "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind"

   Synonyms:
   spin, hint, turn, flatus, farting, wind, nothingness, idle words, confidential information, lead, whirl, kink, breaking wind, bend, braid, wind instrument, wrench, crook, turn of events, tress, pull, plait, steer, fart, malarky, construction, malarkey, jazz, current of air, air current, device, gimmick, twisting, twirl, twist, tip, eddy

   Antonyms:
   straight, direct

2. tortuous, twisting, twisty, winding, voluminousadjective

   marked by repeated turns and bends

   "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track"

   Synonyms:
   tangled, tortuous, convoluted, voluminous, copious, rambling, meandering(a), twisty, twisting, involved, knotty, wandering(a)

   Antonyms:
   direct, straight

3. meandering(a), rambling, wandering(a), windingadjective

   of a path e.g.

   "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"

   Antonyms:
   direct, straight

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1. windingnoun

   Synonyms:
   flexure, turning, meandering, twisting, twist, convolution, contortion, sinuosity, curvature, tortuosity, bend, crook, kink, crookedness

2. windingadjective

   Synonyms:
   flexuous, sinuous, meandering, serpentine

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1. windingadjective

   Synonyms:
   circuitous, labyrinthian, meandering, spiral, serpentine, tortuous, deviating

2. windingnoun

   Synonyms:
   convolution, labyrinth, detour, meander, meandering, crook, bend, curve, angle, sinuation, contortion

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1. List of paraphrases for "winding":

   coil, braiding

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1. Jeffrey McCall:

   That includes admitting errors of fact and errors in decision-making. News credibility is in deep decline and that is partly because news organizations can't bring themselves to honestly explain to the public when they have made mistakes.Further, when mistakes are acknowledged, they should get sufficient space and placement that readers can actually see them, the Hunter Biden laptop story is important on several levels.First, the story was ignored by most establishment media when it first broke, and what little coverage it received was largely to dismiss or debunk the scoop of the New York Post.The journalism of omission in this case was totally glaring in that the establishment media were clearly trying to protect the Biden family as the 2020 election was winding down.

2. Giri Cherukuri:

   Earnings season is winding down and the market is absorbing reports from retailers, which are generally pretty good and the economy is in good shape right,so investors are hoping for a better world economy.

3. Pat Tiberi:

   Mike DeWine's not naturally somebody who you would look at as the typical successful Governor, who is a back-slapper and gives stem-winding speeches, mike DeWine's a grind-it-out governor, manager, who just gets things done.

4. Adrian Loader:

   A lot of New Zealand private equity players are not raising money or they have got succession issues or they are winding up, so what you probably see is that more Australian people are doing Australia New Zealand deals.

5. Roger Entner:

   Time in winding down for Dish, if they don't find a way to build a network, they lose their spectrum.