Typical CTD.

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Source uses terms bend and meander interchangeably.
So you are equivocating all uses of bends and meanders into one process. What a surprise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander
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A meander in general is a bend in a sinuous watercourse, also known as an oxbow loop, or simply an oxbow. A stream of any volume may assume a meandering course, alternatively eroding sediments from the outside of a bend and depositing them on the inside. The result is a snaking pattern as the stream meanders back and forth across its down-valley axis. When a meander gets cut off from the main stream, an oxbow lake is formed. Over time meanders migrate downstream, sometimes in such a short time as to create civil engineering problems for local municipalities attempting to maintain stable roads and bridges.

There is not yet full consistency or standardization of scientific terminology used to describe watercourses.
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Meanders of the Rio Cauto at Guamo Embarcadero, Cuba.
As you can see they are talking about a specific kind of bend that develops in a specific way due to normal stream erosion when they talk about meanders: all meanders are bends, but not all bends are meanders.

You started talking about bends when you said that water flow bends around obstacles: this is not the same thing as a meander, and I am not aware of anyone claiming that water meanders around obstacles. So bends around obstacles would not be classed as meanders.

Nor does this in any way provide evidence that the formation in this picture was formed by flood waters:

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Seeing as I keep repeating this image, there can be no doubt in anyones mind that I am talking about these types of formations, no matter what you call them, and the fact remains that these formations do not form during flood conditions.

Flood waters tend to flow straight (follow the energy gradient rather than any bottom configuration), and this also means flowing straight over obstacles when those obstacles are covered by the flood waters, including the peninsula's of ox-bow meanders, carving new channels in the process.

The fact remains that there is no evidence of this behavior in the Grand Canyon.

The fact remains that nit-picking over the terminology used does not change the reality of how the Grand Canyon was made.

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Should evidence come up that this or that meander formed when he said it shouldn't, ...
Curiously all you need to do is show evidence that a flood has made a meander like the one in the picture above and you know I will agree that you have invalidated my point.

So do you have evidence, or just more equivocating red-herring nit-picks on terminology that don't amount to a hill of beans for how the Grand Canyon actually formed.

Enjoy.