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
Grooves in the hillside squiggle down toward a pasture and bike path at its base.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024
The words beneath the horizontal half-moons had a line running through them that ended in a squiggle.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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
My hearing had gotten worse, as shown on an audiogram filled with X’s, O’s and squiggles connecting them.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024
“Who’s gonna squirt the marshmallow icing squiggles on the Finkles, Mom?”
From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman
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
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 constantly badgered me to do the “James Brown” for them, a squiggling of the feet made famous by the “Godfather of Soul” himself, who back in the sixties was bigger than life.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
