wag
Example Sentences
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“Obsession” has ideas about our age of instant gratification and parasocial idealization fueled by social media that the film never manages to do anything more than wag a finger at.
From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026
To paraphrase some anonymous wag, never let a cross-cultural calamity go to waste.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
You can’t wag your finger at people and say, “You should be going to the theater and having this theatrical experience,” but you feel it rising right now.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025
“I tell clients, ‘Don’t let the tax tail wag the dog.’”
From MarketWatch • Nov. 26, 2025
I felt the Dragon King wag a claw above my head.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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