variants
or less commonly wabble
wobbled also wabbled; wobbling also wabbling
ˈwä-b(ə-)liŋ 
1
: to cause to wobble
variants
or less commonly wabble
1
a
: a hobbling or rocking unequal motion (as of a wheel unevenly mounted)
b
: an uncertainly directed movement
2
: an intermittent variation (as in volume of sound)
Synonyms
Examples of wobble in a Sentence
Verb
The vase wobbled but didn't fall over.
The boy was wobbling along on his bicycle.
The table wobbles a little.
They have been wobbling in their support of the president's policies.
Recent Examples on the Web
Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2024
There also was Milton’s uncertain track, with forecasters warning the major hurricane could wobble seemingly without warning, shifting its landfall target and thus its path across the Peninsula.
—Paul P. Murphy and Michelle Krupa, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
Mark Travers, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
But in 2007, a Stanford statistician named Persi Diaconis proposed that the act of flipping a coin introduces a small wobble—a change in the direction of the axis of rotation throughout the coin's trajectory that causes a coin to spend more time in the air with the initial side facing up.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024
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Verb
Toddlers wobble about the play area with their moms (or nannies).
—Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2024
There also was Milton’s uncertain track, with forecasters warning the major hurricane could wobble seemingly without warning, shifting its landfall target and thus its path across the Peninsula.
—Paul P. Murphy and Michelle Krupa, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
Noun
Gentle parenting is about building resilience, one wobble at a time.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
But in 2007, a Stanford statistician named Persi Diaconis proposed that the act of flipping a coin introduces a small wobble—a change in the direction of the axis of rotation throughout the coin's trajectory that causes a coin to spend more time in the air with the initial side facing up.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024
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“Wobble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wobble. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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wobble
1 of 2 verb
wob·ble
ˈwäb-əl
wobbled; wobbling
-(ə-)liŋ
1
a
: to move or cause to move with a jerky rocking or side-to-side motion
the baby's head wobbled from side to side
b
: tremble entry 1 sense 1
a voice that wobbles
2
: waver sense 1
his opinion wobbled
wobble
2 of 2 noun
: a wobbling action or movement
the wheel had a bad wobble
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