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wobbly

[wob-lee] / ˈwɒb li /


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But, after plenty of nervousness last week over fighting in the Middle East and the wobbly AI trade, futures suggest U.S. stocks will start the new week on a strong footing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

GameStop’s sales have been wobbly, amid the flight to digital gaming.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

She said she was glad she did not have a heart condition, adding: "When I managed to get to Shell I felt very wobbly."

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

Bessent and Takaichi jointly worry about a wobbly yen, which brushed the psychological barrier of 160 to the dollar on April 30, before official intervention beat it back to about 158.

From Barron's May 14, 2026

She smiles, but it’s wobbly at the edges.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

The cycle gets wobblier but it doesn’t change.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 21, 2025

Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies ostensibly pegged to the value of a stable asset like the dollar that have sometimes proven wobblier than promised.

From New York Times Oct. 3, 2022

That could slow the winds and make the Arctic vortex weaker and wobblier.

From The Verge Feb. 1, 2019

My feet got wobblier, my efforts to loop back to the starting point slower and my water breaks more frequent.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 2018

His stance grew wobblier with each passing second, but somehow he managed to make eye contact with me.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Since that time, scientists have used what they have learned about gravitational waves to observe a black hole devour a neutron star, glimpse inside neutron stars and even discover the wobbliest black hole ever seen.

From Salon Nov. 28, 2023

Since then, the discovery of gravitational waves have allowed scientists to peer inside neutron stars and discover the wobbliest black hole ever detected.

From Salon Jun. 29, 2023

Science news headlines regularly tout how gravitational waves are allowing scientists to do new things like peer inside neutron stars and discover the wobbliest black hole ever detected.

From Salon Nov. 18, 2022

Open to become the first woman in 27 years to hold all four majors in a calendar year, it would cap another milestone for the record-breaking American: the wobbliest dominant season in tennis history.

From Washington Post Aug. 29, 2015

And their boxes and steamships are the wobbliest things.”

From Maida's Little Shop by Inez Haynes Gillmore




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