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What does "wind up" mean?

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Rebecca

"Wind up" means to arrive or end up in a specified state, situation, or place. In this sentence, the speaker says "you always wind up in the middle of what's going on." Wind up in this sentence means that she always ends up in the middle of all the commotion ("what's going on"). Ex: You wound up in the middle of the action. (You ended up in the middle of the action.) Ex: After graduating college, I wound up in NYC. (After graduating college, I ended up in NYC.)

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