waggle
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"The waggle dance is often presented as a one-way information transfer," said Ken Tan, the senior author of the study and a researcher at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 24, 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
Kelenic appears far more comfortable and balanced at the plate, with an elbow waggle to help with his timing.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
Biddy waggle her fingers closer, and Mama Duck hiss through the hole in her beak and struck her head out like a snake trying to bite Biddy’s fingers.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
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
He unscrews the back plate, waggles the tubes back and forth.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Millions of people watched the awards shows where Williams waggled his hips at Tom Jones, or challenged Oasis’ Liam Gallagher to a fist fight — moments that have been absorbed into pop culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
“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
I waggled my eyebrows as I’d seen Groucho Marx do.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2017
A three-year-old Glen of Imaal terrier named Emmett sat on his hindquarters and waggled his paws in the air for a treat.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 15, 2017
She waggled the long fingers slowly, displaying the clawlike nails.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
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
Zaharan was pudgy and empty-eyed, with a habit of waggling his index finger as he raved and yelled.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2020
“Hullo!” said Esme, waggling a rubber duck at us.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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