squiggle
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Richards’s signature style is to break down complex behavioral-finance concepts into minimalist line drawings — sometimes just a squiggle — with only a few words.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026
"That's what happened here. We had all sort of noticed this fishhook squiggle on the rock. It was pretty prominent because it was really, really deep."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024
In other scenes, such as one where he's specifically asked his name, squiggle lines appear over his lips, suggesting that a spell has been cast to prevent him from revealing himself.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2024
Another trim making a comeback is rickrack, featuring squiggle design that adds a playful touch.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
“I’d seen it before, but I didn’t think of it as an E then, just a squiggle that looked like writing. There are all these rocks that look like they’re covered with writing.”
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
The floor was so grubby that the thought of sitting anywhere on it was nauseating — and regardless, the lanes were now too dark for reading, lit primarily by bright neon stripes and squiggles.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
In this script, the lines of good and evil aren’t drawn in black and white or even gray — they’re a tangle of squiggles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
The genus name uncus means “hook” in Latin, after the fishhooklike squiggles on the rock left by the fossils.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 19, 2024
After seeing more of the worm-like squiggles the team paid closer attention, taking note of fishhook's characteristics.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024
I showed her how to take a thin stream of sand and make squiggles to decorate the turrets.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
The book, compiled between 1967-1968, features Sir Paul McCartney's draft of the famous song alongside poetry and doodles squiggled by the music legend.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2022
Over the course of a profoundly productive journalism career, he was able to translate all those squiggled notes into some of the finest long-form writing The Post has ever published.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 15, 2020
When the EKG was connected to the electrodes on her chest, a horizontal line squiggled out, followed by a few tiny waves marking the last electrical activity in her heart.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2020
“Here comes one! There’s an aftershock,” she said as the software showed red, blue and green lines that squiggled up and down.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2020
He rolled and he wriggled, he fought and he figgled, he squirmed and he squiggled.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
Some look like earthworms and others are covered in tiny bristles, squiggling about.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2022
Squeeze the chocolate onto the lined baking sheet, swirling or squiggling the lines to make decorative shapes.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2022
The casual-looking moves include a squiggling elbow, a lowering to one knee, fingers tapping the soles of feet.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
It's great for squiggling on a slice of pizza or on top of a bowl of fried rice, and its flavor can be found carried into all types of food products.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2021
They screamed for more and I obliged, squiggling my feet and slip-sliding across the wooden floor, jumping into the air and landing in a near split by the blackboard, shouting “Eeeee-yowwww!”
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
