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as in tossed
to make jerky or restless movements a pediatrician's waiting room full of squiggling toddlers
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Recent Examples of squiggled The cake is gingery, light and moist, squiggled with thick cream cheese frosting. —
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Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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Imanaga tossed seven innings for the first time this season, limiting the Phillies to just three hits, including the home run, while walking one and striking out one batter.— Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026
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Lugo tossed seven scoreless innings and logged seven strikeouts.— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 21 Apr. 2026
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The bodies, along with that of his six-month pregnant daughter-in-law, arrived in wooden coffins on a bus from Lebanon, their names scribbled on the sides.— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2026
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Another video shared on Instagram, presumably taken at an earlier point, shows the same bot rumbling along to deliver some food with the same graffiti scribbled on its exterior.— Joe Wilkins Published Mar 19, Futurism, 19 Mar. 2026
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One woman ordered some home furniture while two children fidgeted nearby.— David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2026
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Between each dance was an excruciating silence during which network-TV producers monitored and reset their equipment while the men fidgeted onstage like excitable children.— Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
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The paper was scrawled with phone numbers of politicians to call and driving distances to dialysis centers in the region.— Arielle Zionts, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026
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The post stitched together photos of Bible scripture, Paul crying, pain relief patches and personal notes scrawled through notebooks.— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026
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Pebbles twitched, branches waggled, cholla wiggled, weeds erupted then dried up and died.— Alina Hartounian, NPR, 20 Apr. 2026
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Kearse twitched briefly after the lethal drugs began entering his system but stopped moving several minutes later.— Freida Frisaro, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
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The plane jerked to a stop as two trucks passed just feet in front of its nose.— Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2026
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We are jerked between past and present as his backstory gets filled in, one jogged memory at a time.— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
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His Japanese guest, usually a paragon of diplomatic cool, visibly squirmed.— Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 14 Apr. 2026
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Substitute Nikolas Nartey completed the scoring in stoppage time with another deflected shot that squirmed in off the far post.— ABC News, ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
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No spoilers, but things get twisted in this one in ways that are almost impossible to predict.— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
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On 72 minutes, Mac Allister had his blood twisted by Ousmane Dembele at the other end after a typically ruthless PSG counter.— Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
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“Squiggled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/squiggled. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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