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wiggle

[wig-uhl] / ˈwɪg əl /




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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

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

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

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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