fidgeting
Example Sentences
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In the studio and in meetings, Shulman has the restless energy of a kid—pacing around a room or fidgeting with a piano keyboard or bass guitar—combined with the intellectual affect of a quant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
They can take four minutes on the answer, and people are now fidgeting in the crowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025
People living with perceived misokinesia - a diagnosable hatred of fidgeting - call it "life limiting" and say they're buoyed by it becoming recognised as a medical condition.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2024
The severity of people's aversion to fidgeting varies, she tells me.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024
She released us then and began fidgeting with the string of pearls around her neck.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
