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[wig-uhl] / ˈwɪg əl /




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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

Households with student loans have less wiggle room than they did, ever since payments resumed in late 2023.

From MarketWatch ● 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

“Does he ever wiggle his toes or move the tips of his fingers?”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

Elouise wiggles in the chair to our left like she’s doing a victory dance.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

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

Though Yamamoto wiggled out of the jam, it took him 23 pitches to escape the first inning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

Rojas wore Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s blue glove, wiggled the ball in it and hesitated during his windup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025

While Gates wiggled his hips after nailing doubles, and was backed by chants of 'USA, USA', his opponent faced jeers and looked increasingly despondent as the match progressed.

From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2024

She wiggled both wrists like she was turning two doorknobs, excited.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

She singled out the city’s dozens of tusi banquets—dinner theater shows sold as exotic cultural experiences, with slickly coiffed young Tibetan men wiggling across the stage to hip-hop beats for an appreciative, largely female audience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Particularly impressive were improvements in robotic hands, Sarkar said, wiggling his fingers.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

“It’s going so fast,” Wahab said, wiggling and pointing as her aunt held on tightly for safety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

You can bet that most Americans, meanwhile, will be wiggling their hips to “Dákiti.”

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025

She snaps on a pair of blue latex gloves, wiggling her fingers to get them comfortably onto her hands.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott




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