wag

“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

But strict rules also make the financial tail wag the real economy dog.

From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026

The criticism usually ends there, with a finger wag and a head shake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

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

Fred tried to reassure the boy with a happy tail wag.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

“Obsession” wags its finger at projecting a fantasy onto your crush.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

Sitting next to Carr, Faith begged to differ, smiling as she wags her finger at the camera.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

Wall Street wags say bigger investment managers will do worse, but Blackstone’s 2025 investment performance was pretty good.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

This dual audience for the written word—readers and advertisers—has survived in digital media, and as with silly summer inserts, it’s often the tail of advertising that wags the dog of text.

From Slate ● May 21, 2025

And check this out, yo: She wags her finger at us.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

The media hall monitor at the Poynter Institute wagged his finger, which someone actually pays him for.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

His efforts seemed to have put his side on course to win, but the Brave tailed wagged to pull off a remarkable victory.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025

As Palencia came toward the sideline, he wagged his finger as if to say he didn’t make an offensive comment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

As Stone wagged his finger at Milei, an aide tried to interpret the pronouncements into Spanish.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025

But Clem just wagged his tail and barked.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

If a leveraged fund grows large enough, it can start to have a significant impact on the underlying stock to which it is tied, a phenomenon traders refer to as “the tail wagging the dog.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

In a sense, it is like the tail wagging the dog.

From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026

In a brief closeup from an earlier tournament game, Mara was shown wagging his tongue in celebration … or was that in revenge?

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

"She just came straight out, straight over to me, wagging her tail."

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

Robin waits for me at the top of the stairs, stubby tail wagging, but I don’t move.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan