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Recent Examples of twiddle
There is no sitting on the sidelines and no twiddling our thumbs or navel gazing.
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Abc News, ABC News, 5 June 2024
Yet, don’t sit back twiddling your thumbs hoping everything will fall into place!
—Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 12 May 2024
One of the most stunning allegations Thursday was that while Ohtani twiddled his batting gloves, Mizuhara refused to allow anyone else on his business team to view Ohtani’s $16-million spigot.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
Such old-style trickery is, so to speak, nothing new; for some self-regarding auteurs, twiddling with aspect ratios has become a formalist signature.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
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Abc News, ABC News, 5 June 2024
Yet, don’t sit back twiddling your thumbs hoping everything will fall into place!
—Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 12 May 2024
One of the most stunning allegations Thursday was that while Ohtani twiddled his batting gloves, Mizuhara refused to allow anyone else on his business team to view Ohtani’s $16-million spigot.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
Such old-style trickery is, so to speak, nothing new; for some self-regarding auteurs, twiddling with aspect ratios has become a formalist signature.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twiddle
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Morris Brown, the family practice physician who owns the clinic, rotated through Black patients nearly every 20 minutes.Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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Altair rotates at a blistering pace of once every seven hours, represented by a spinning motif.Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2024
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In one of the more impressive moments from the set, DJ Jahi Sundance spun vocal samples from Erykah Badu and Thundercat as the band expertly weaved around them.William E. Ketchum III, VIBE.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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Then, to understand how well the mud flowed, the researchers placed some on a machine called a rheometer that spun the sample and measured its viscosity.Evan Bush, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
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The medical team wheels the body out of the cabin under a curtain on a room service trolley so as not to disturb the passengers, then uses the flower shop walk-in freezer as a morgue.Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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Should one get caught in your throat, you must be wheeled to the special department dedicated to plucking out fish bones from throats.Weike Wang, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2024
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Keen to lift the team after a difficult opening five minutes, Shakhtar fans began jumping up and down in their corner of the stadium and twirling their orange scarves above their heads.Matias Grez, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024
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Charli’s been twirling, jumping, and spitting on stage in Luar and Acne Studios, courtesy of Brat fashion architect Chris Horan.José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2024
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Following years of revolving leadership and a broken financial model for operating single-room occupancy hotels, the trust announced its impending failure in early 2023.Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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The company anticipates that the revolving facility will close concurrently with the the GrandView acquisition.Doug Gollan, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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Pearsall turned upfield and raced Antoine Winfield Jr. down the sideline, stiff-arming the Tampa Bay safety and fighting off his tackle to reach the end zone just before being hauled out of bounds.Michael Nowels, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Copied Share Bengals turn the ball over on downs Rohan Nadkarni The Bengals went 49 yards in 11 plays, but the Ravens stopped them on 4th-and-3.NBC News, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
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Swing states nearby:Ohio neighbors Michigan, Pennsylvania could swing election.Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2024
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Performers swing from lampposts suspended from above as pin-sharp projections turn the stage into city streets followed by a marble floor, a grassy landscape with autumn leaves blowing in the wind and an ocean which ripples.Caroline Reid, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Before the pandemic, venture capital money rolled into TPC.Max Scheinblum, The Denver Post, 13 Nov. 2024
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Many observers are confounded by voters’ willingness to roll the dice and reelect the intemperate Donald Trump as president.Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
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“Twiddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twiddle. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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