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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

Canada’s retaliatory tariffs aren’t set to take effect for another two weeks, leaving wiggle room for the two sides to reach a last-minute compromise.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

In the initial stages, she could not lift her legs or wiggle her toes.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

The little paragraphs between the pictures ended before the letters had a chance to get cocky and wiggle about.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Occasionally the wiggles get bigger and that can result in big curves in the flow - like a meandering river.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

"We then look at this dance through a microscope with a camera and decode from the wiggles what the robots are saying to us. It's very similar to how honey bees communicate with each other."

From Science Daily ● Jan. 6, 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

Rather than set in stone, this race wiggles like Jello.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2024

She lifts them and wiggles into her blue-and-white polka-dot dress.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

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

In protest, he jumped on stage, wiggled his bottom at the cameras, made a strange wafting gesture with his hands and beat a hasty retreat, pursued by Jackson's security team.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 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

She hummed, and its fluorescent petals wiggled and waved.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

He picks up the story of his tongue: “They laid it out there and it was wiggling around,” he says, grinning before turning serious again.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 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

He was wiggling all over and tickled to death to see me.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls


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