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as in to squirm
to make jerky or restless movements
a toddler wriggling in his seat all throughout the church service
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Recent Examples of wriggle
Higher workload, career ambitions, and new technology wriggling into the workplace.
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Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 20 Nov. 2024
Friday, March 14, 2025, is when the full Worm Moon wriggles its way into the night sky.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2024
Unlike dogs, rats can wriggle through the cracks and crevasses of a container ship.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
Nonetheless, a unique profile and a mischievous knack for wriggling through challenges would add refreshing variety to Pep Guardiola’s growing collection of tricky wingers.
—Thom Harris, The Athletic, 19 July 2024
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Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 20 Nov. 2024
Friday, March 14, 2025, is when the full Worm Moon wriggles its way into the night sky.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2024
Unlike dogs, rats can wriggle through the cracks and crevasses of a container ship.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
Nonetheless, a unique profile and a mischievous knack for wriggling through challenges would add refreshing variety to Pep Guardiola’s growing collection of tricky wingers.
—Thom Harris, The Athletic, 19 July 2024
See all Example Sentences for wriggle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wriggle
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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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The two girls then left Leutner alone to crawl out of the forest and find help.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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If no shelter is available, crawl to an interior wall away from windows.Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 10 Jan. 2025
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For context, the US intelligence community is currently reeling after discovering that hackers linked to the PRC wormed their way deep into US telecommunications infrastructure, potentially compromising things like phone calls and text messages.WIRED, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2025
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The uncertainty, the instability, the danger that pervades his life worms off the page and into your brain.Longreads, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
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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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Mortgage rates have crept back over 7% to start the new year in a potentially troublesome development for the housing market that has struggled under the weight of higher interest rates for two years that have priced people out of the market and slowed sales to 20-year lows.Austin Denean, Baltimore Sun, 17 Jan. 2025
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The drama creeps in gradually, like a gray poison slowly infecting the air.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
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Sometimes, he's gotten invited to inaugural balls; other times, he's been able to sneak in.Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 17 Jan. 2025
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And with a personal training certification and a degree in kinesiology, a wellness focus often sneaks into many aspects of my personal and professional life.Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 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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In any of these cases, toss the seeds out and get new ones.Annie Peterson, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Jan. 2025
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The tiger snakes of Perth have heavy metals in their livers.Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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That includes the Swannanoa River, which snakes through the historic Biltmore Village area.USA TODAY Graphics team, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Wriggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wriggle. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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