wriggle
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The bill’s backers are hopeful it will wriggle through this legislative session and land on the governor’s desk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Clubs in the 2026-27 season also have to spend at least £5.4m, dubbed the new salary cap floor - this leaves less wriggle room if you wanted to bring in one player on big money.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The rules allowed some wriggle room for Japan to ship weapons and components to key partners under joint-development programs deemed critical to Japan’s security, such as ballistic missile defense systems developed with the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
"You need to have some wriggle room" for when things go wrong, he added.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025
To reach them, the men had to crawl on hands and knees over the stone ballast, then wriggle forward on their stomachs over the crates of stores.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
It wriggles back into the streets aiming for friends, tunes, food.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Teo wriggles down into the warmth of the duvet and snuggles into his mother.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
Darragh sticks out her tongue and wriggles it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
When a nematode wriggles around a petri dish, what’s going on inside a tiny roundworm’s even tinier brain?
From Scientific American ● Aug. 21, 2023
Peeta wriggles back inside, his face lit up like the sun.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
Having gazed at it onscreen dozens of times, including in the hyper-crisp 16K resolution of the Sphere, this in-person viewing was the first time I realized how Bert Lahr wriggled it on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Forty years ago in February, Jackson wriggled free of her father Joe Jackson’s stifling management with the release of “Control.”
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2026
James Justin wriggled free inside the Forest area and when his shot was saved by Ortega, he had the presence of mind to square the rebound to Okafor, who slotted home from 10 yards.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
She said she slipped his grip, wriggled free and got away.”
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025
Cassiopeia wriggled with excitement, for there was only one person this side of the veil who baked in this particular kind of way.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Cowboys would scrape the wriggling larvae from wounds on cattle and smear the now-banned paste over it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The towering striker is technically gifted - comfortable wriggling it out of tight spaces and linking play - and has even been nicknamed 'Woltemessi' by Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
They milled in the room to music between sessions with partners, shaking off awkwardness by wriggling their arms, swinging their hips, jumping or full-on dancing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
We gawked at the sea creatures — lobsters, soft-shell turtles, wriggling live eels — while she filled the cart.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2025
“Something’s wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake.”
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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