wriggle
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"You need to have some wriggle room" for when things go wrong, he added.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025
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
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
For decades, he tried to wriggle out of that typecasting to play kooks and himbos.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025
I circled around it and knelt down, and that’s when I noticed a small hole in the floor at the tomb’s base, no bigger than a fist—just large enough for a bird to wriggle through.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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