jostling
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This repeated jostling helps explain why sea ice does not simply keep accelerating and spreading in response to the wind.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
The dispute comes when multiple royal events will be jostling for attention.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Scores of women queued at a school sheltering Nepal flood victims, jostling to receive personal-care supplies, as concerns over sanitation and menstrual hygiene mount days after the catastrophic disaster.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
The jostling grew particularly fierce between South Carolina and Nevada.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
The first European adventurers in the Western Hemisphere did not make careful population counts, but they repeatedly described indigenous America as a crowded, jostling place—“a beehive of people,” as Las Casas put it in 1542.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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