curlicue
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On “Rated OG,” he adds intriguing curlicue accents to a chord progression rendered on vibraphone as a forceful, distorted bass riff chugs along underneath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
Get it really cold and then a giant twist, not those little curlicue twists that they do sometimes.
From Salon ● May 1, 2025
The wooden figure—with its shaggy white hair, black curlicue mustache, and cherubic pink cheeks—bears little resemblance to Donald Trump’s signature comb over and bronzed skin.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2023
A fine tool, certainly: Her brand of verbatim theater, perfected in a series of documentary plays since the early 1980s, duplicates the expressive peculiarities of real speech, making every defensive stammer and evasive curlicue count.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2021
Craig, who was suddenly interested in girls, had started taking his phone calls behind closed doors in the bathroom, the phone’s curlicue cord stretched taut across the hallway from its wall-mounted base in the kitchen.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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