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
I prefer a sprinkling of salt, a bed of raw onions and cilantro and a squiggle of green salsa.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
As McKinnon tells Robbie she must travel to “The Real World” for answers, the drawn map appears, showing a trail of eight dashes jutting out in a squiggle from Asia and into the map’s ocean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
A squiggle of pink lightning arced across the studio, and that’s the last thing I remember.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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
It was crazy how words—just black squiggles on a page—could bring memories rushing back.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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
“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
Vegetable-focussed appetizers include marinated shishito and Jimmy Nardello peppers, for layering on crusty toast with thickly squiggled ricotta that’s been whipped until it’s as densely creamy as labneh.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 23, 2018
Monkey feces lay in loops on the floor and was squiggled in lines across the walls and printed in the shapes of small hands.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Some look like earthworms and others are covered in tiny bristles, squiggling about.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 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
The cicadas will mostly come out at dusk to try to avoid everything that wants to eat them, squiggling out of holes in the ground.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2021
To boot, Onofre’s TV antenna was so tall, so elaborate, so pronged, and so replete with squiggling copper and aluminum tubing and boosters, that it looked like a DEW-line radar interceptor in Greenland.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
