wiggle
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Others believe energy and trade volatility are here to stay, leaving zero wiggle room to absorb the hit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
But sceptics have warned that financial constraints mean he will struggle to find wiggle room to fund bigger commitments.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
But other schools have looked for wiggle room, and the new IRS rule does have some exceptions.
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2026
In the initial stages, she could not lift her legs or wiggle her toes.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
I suspect there is some wiggle room in this arrangement.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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Styles has a lot in common with the King of Rock and Roll: from his chiselled good looks to the particular way he wiggles his hips.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
“If you look at a video of a real baby primate, they have the exact same wiggles and imperfections,” says the filmmaker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025
Known as topological waves, these wiggles often occur on the border of two different regions, like plasma and the vacuum in tokamaks at its outer edge.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
Rather than set in stone, this race wiggles like Jello.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2024
She wiggles her bare toes on both feet.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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To be sure, American consumers have wiggled out of tight spots before, powering the U.S. economy through decades-high inflation spikes, a pandemic, and armed conflicts.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
Tesla showed off its Optimus robot, which wiggled its lifelike fingers to the crowd.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
“She immediately walked over to me and wiggled around like goldens do,” Koerner said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2025
Strip away those embellishments, though, and it remains a stubbornly lightweight pop song, based around the same four chords Western music has utilised since Elvis wiggled his hips.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025
While she marched along the bottom, the bright ball of light wiggled and wobbled through the wavy surface overhead and sank toward the western horizon.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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He installed himself courtside, the Windows Clippy among the die-hards, leaping from his seat after dunks and wiggling like one of those inflatable tubes at a car wash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Particularly impressive were improvements in robotic hands, Sarkar said, wiggling his fingers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
But the most likely answer is that particles of pollution are "wiggling their way through the lining of the blood vessels and lodging in various organs".
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
You can bet that most Americans, meanwhile, will be wiggling their hips to “Dákiti.”
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025
Some were standing on chairs, some were up on the tables and all of them were wiggling about and waving their arms in the most extraordinary manner.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
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