fidget
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This featured noise-cancelling headphones, fidget toys, weighted blankets and quiet activities such as colouring and puzzles.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Kids call them fidget toys or stress balls.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
When slime, fidget spinners and other tactile toys started catching on, the company looked to create a product that could compete.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
That approach, she said, helped Five Below take advantage of the current craze for “squishy dumplings” — the latest popular fidget toy that the retailer has managed to cash in on.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 18, 2026
Mrs. Tracey still didn’t move from the window, and everyone began to fidget, looking at everyone else, and my eyes landed on the whiteboard.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
He fidgets with a pair of eyeglasses and points a knobby index finger to underscore a point, jiggles his leg restlessly and, at one point, mimes playing guitar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Even at shows without sensory modifications, sensory bags containing comfort items, fidgets and headphones are always available.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
One sign of autism is fidgeting, but, she points out, how a black woman fidgets will be different to a white man for example.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2023
In interviews, he fidgets, stumbles over words and gets frustrated if he thinks he has said the wrong thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
She fidgets with the ribbon in her hair as she talks.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
When asked what his manner was like, she replied: "Matter of fact. He appeared a bit nervous. He kind of fidgeted."
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024
Students fidgeted in chairs, not knowing what to say.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
And at the matinee I saw, it failed to connect with its audience — or at least the several dozen middle school students in attendance, who napped, whispered, fidgeted and surreptitiously checked phones.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2023
Together they fidgeted and called out, interrupting things repeatedly with their questions and responses.
From Salon ● May 6, 2023
Sefia fidgeted with the straps of her pack.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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
Newby, who was being treated for a chest infection at the time, said he approached Farooq outside the maternity ward after spotting him fidgeting and looking anxious.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
They can take four minutes on the answer, and people are now fidgeting in the crowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025
The severity of people's aversion to fidgeting varies, she tells me.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024
Next to him were the four senior student officers, most of them fidgeting.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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