as in to fidget
to make jerky or restless movements
the baby wiggled in her sleep
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Recent Examples of wiggle
Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2024
Block off an hour in your calendar just to wiggle your toes.
—Meghana Indurti, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2024
Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2024
And Hepp believes there’s still some possibility of choppiness in inflation readings that feeds into wiggles in rates.
—Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2024
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Verb
By night, his father would lend him his binoculars to spy on women through their windows, filling in any gaps in his anatomical understanding with whatever under-the-counter girly magazines had managed to wiggle through Italy’s draconian censorship.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2024
Block off an hour in your calendar just to wiggle your toes.
—Meghana Indurti, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
This is the Control Center customization view, which is vastly superior to the home screen's wiggle mode.
—Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2024
And Hepp believes there’s still some possibility of choppiness in inflation readings that feeds into wiggles in rates.
—Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2024
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Acknowledge Vulnerabilities Vulnerability often hides behind subtle cues, such as a hesitant tone, fidgeting hands, or a shift in demeanor, signaling feelings of uncertainty, fear, or self-consciousness.Mark Travers, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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Recruiters advise paying attention to your facial and body language and refraining from slouching, fidgeting and a limp handshake that can convey a lack of confidence.Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
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On the exterior, the home features wood shake roofing / shingles.Bay Area Home Report, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2025
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Other creations have been added to the menu since, using the building block ingredients of cannoli, including cannoli cake and cannoli shakes.Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
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As the omen begins to descend onto Karen’s house, the hairs of the mermaids’ arms stand up; their scales twitch in fear.Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
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Not the American economy, which twitched from panic to triumph to panic and, in 1907, had to be bailed out with private funds from Morgan and his associates.Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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Stars hit the exits as newsroom leaders squirm Executive Editor Matt Murray and Editorial Page Editor David Shipley repeatedly find themselves in difficult positions.David Folkenflik, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
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Jack eventually saves Santa and defeats Oogie by unraveling his cloth, revealing a squirming pile of insects.Mike Miller, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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In the 1993 flick co-written and directed by Nora Ephron (holds moment of silence in the rom-icon’s honor), young Jonah (Ross Malinger) phones a radio host on Christmas Eve, explaining that his widowed dad Sam (Tom Hanks) needs a new wife.Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
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The same can be said for the movie as a whole, which blends Shelton’s talent for literate, witty character comedy with the conventions of the Joel Silver-era buddy flick in mutually beneficial ways.Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 14 Jan. 2025
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DiVincenzo stood in place for a brief period after the horn sounded, tossing his arms up once more.Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 12 Jan. 2025
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Trump has tossed expansionist rhetoric not just at Canada but also at other U.S. allies, with arguments that the frontiers of American power need to be extended to the Danish territory of Greenland, and southward to include the Panama Canal.Jim Morris, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2025
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Symptoms include: Hallucinations or delusions Increased heart rate Nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea Dizziness Muscle jerks Sweating or flushing Seizures Effexor is not approved for children but is sometimes used off-label for anxiety and depression disorders.Jessica Swirble, Verywell Health, 17 Jan. 2025
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Among the new food items on sale during the Seven Seas Food Festival will be Jamaican jerk chicken and pork pincho at the Caribbean Market; garlic toast chicken parmigiana (Italian Market), strawberry pouffe (Irish Market) and veggie samosas (Indian market).Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2025
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Joao Pedro twisted an ankle in training on Wednesday, ruling him out of the cup tie and possibly longer depending on the results of a scan.Andy Naylor, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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Yet the increasingly normalized and casual use of the slur in the digital public square is so far removed from this framework of basic empathy, and from the euphemistic origins of the expression — a clinical term twisted for the purposes of disparagement — that the appeal to decency doesn’t apply.Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Wiggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiggle. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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