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wriggle

verb as in maneuver out of; wiggle

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"I have two very small children so things can get very stressful at home," says Stella while holding on tight to a wriggling baby Evie.

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Some hostage families fear Netanyahu will still find a way to wriggle out of ending the war.

“He doesn’t know he was in a movie,” said Leonberg, clasping a happily wriggling Indy, who doesn’t register me on the other end of the Zoom interview.

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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.

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In every instance, Hank and Peggy, but mainly Hank, wriggle in their discomfort before settling into a kind of peace with whatever occurs.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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