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wriggle

[rig-uhl] / ˈrɪg əl /


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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

Until we wriggle free, all we can do is document.

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2025

For decades, he tried to wriggle out of that typecasting to play kooks and himbos.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025

Having burned both their remaining reviews - a potential caught behind off Stubbs' glove and a flimsy lbw appeal against Bedingham - Cummins left himself no wriggle room in the event of some late drama.

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2025

“But she’d just wriggle away from me. Knows my tricks too well, she does.”

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz




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