wriggle
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Now that it seems he can’t hide from the story entirely, Hegseth is trying to wriggle out from responsibility by blaming an underling, Adm.
From Salon • Dec. 3, 2025
The Premier League has added some wriggle room, too, with a multi-year rolling allowance of 30% that permits clubs to spend beyond the limit.
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025
Matthew Umhofer, an attorney representing the Alliance, said the city paid big money to Gibson Dunn in a failed attempt to wriggle out of its legal obligations.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025
An unholy specimen, a building creature that is sufficiently weird, necessary, and profitable to wriggle to life in the city’s stifling landscape of land-use regulations: the double duplex.
From Slate • Jul. 31, 2025
It had been hard for them to wriggle free of the brokers who covered rich people and to get into the arms of brokers who covered big, stock market–investing institutions.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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