waggle
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For food sources approximately 100 meters away, the directional information in the waggle dance can deviate by around 30 degrees.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026
Every day, new people came, some people left, but the constant was Syd, his presence, his waggle, his ability to give unexpected joy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2025
He added: "He had a super swing - a no-nonsense swing. One waggle and away it went."
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2025
It can also do something more complicated, which is the very famous waggle dance—it’s the communication pattern they use to convey the location of a nectar source to other honeybees.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 7, 2023
I decide to respond with the head waggle that means yes.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
But he says the new research reveals more about the structure of a species’ communication system, much as scientists deciphered how the waggles of honey bees tell other bees where flowers are located.
From Science Magazine ● May 7, 2024
The researchers observed that bees alter the position of their antennae, which are touched repeatedly by the dancer as it waggles by, based on the angle of their body relative to the dancer.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024
“His tongue waggles, he talks fast. Smooth talker is how I’m going to explain it.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
It's a fiercely hot afternoon in Milton Keynes and I'm chasing a small orange flag as it waggles just above a line of low garden walls.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2022
She waggles her eye-brows at me and grins.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Everyone laughed when she stuck out her foot and theatrically waggled it, as if showing off a designer stiletto.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2023
These they waggled at me in person one morning after rainstorms flooded the subways of Manhattan, in an enormous penthouse apartment with views of the Hudson River — and, Dixie noted, dramatic lightning strikes.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2021
When I met Caleb at his place, I held up my hands and waggled my fingers.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2019
“Respect the axe. Don’t swing it everywhere. Don’t just throw it around all willy-nilly,” Meehan-Berg said, as I waggled the axe about.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2018
"They looked at the door and looked at us and then”—he thrust his arms straight out and waggled his fingers—"gone! I didn’t know things could go sideways so fast. Boy are they smart.”
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
Anyway, a discussion about the weather sparked Mr. Biden’s memory of an old movie, unspooling in his waggling mind.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
“It was just, like, theater kids,” she says, demonstrating the type by waggling her jazz hands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
Slow-motion footage of waggling goose butts set to a bouncy, whimsical orchestral soundtrack works.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2020
When Weird Al appeared, waggling his arms zanily, long hair flapping in the hot wind, the crowd greeted him with a surge of joy.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2020
“Don’t be so sure!” said Lockhart, waggling a finger annoyingly at Seamus.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
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