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Recent Examples of jiggly
The cheesecake rises like a souffle, with a jiggly center and a beautiful brown crust.
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Amisha Gurbani,
San Francisco Chronicle,
10 Apr. 2026
Place the pie on the heated stone or skillet and bake until the edges are set and the center is still slightly jiggly, 40 to 50 minutes.
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Monti Carlo,
AJC.com,
27 Feb. 2026
Raw celtuce, a lettuce cultivar bred for its sweet stem rather than for its leaves, is cut into neat rectangles of a luminous parakeet green, interleaved with strips of jiggly kombu jelly, and plated atop a vermillion pool of Yongchun red vinegar.
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Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
The jiggly, quaking contraption is eye-catching—a natural social media star.
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Julia Sullivan,
Outside,
23 Dec. 2025
Amisha Gurbani,
San Francisco Chronicle,
10 Apr. 2026
Place the pie on the heated stone or skillet and bake until the edges are set and the center is still slightly jiggly, 40 to 50 minutes.
—
Monti Carlo,
AJC.com,
27 Feb. 2026
Raw celtuce, a lettuce cultivar bred for its sweet stem rather than for its leaves, is cut into neat rectangles of a luminous parakeet green, interleaved with strips of jiggly kombu jelly, and plated atop a vermillion pool of Yongchun red vinegar.
—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
The jiggly, quaking contraption is eye-catching—a natural social media star.
—
Julia Sullivan,
Outside,
23 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jiggly
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For years, many of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority have embarked on rickety wooden boats to try to reach neighbouring countries, including Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, in a bid to flee persecution in Myanmar or overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh.
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Your sunnies should be comfortable and durable, not rickety!
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Its apparently smooth screen quickly dissolves into a jiggling lattice of molecules, which in turn resolve into clouds of electrons buzzing around atomic nuclei.
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Every part of me that can jiggle is now jiggling.
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According to a recent study, stock prices decline when younger CEOs die unexpectedly, while the sudden deaths of the doddering and wizened drive price spikes.
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Even Kathy Hilton is like a ghost of her former self, with Jen Tilly taking the crown of doddering kook away from her.
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Neither of them understands the other’s dynamic with Daniel, and the split-episode format keeps our sympathies teeter-tottering between each woman.
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But like others interviewed by the AJC, this trainee opted not to report his allegations because of his precarious employment status.
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Even Hollywood critics of the generative AI economy express sympathy for those working in this precarious field.
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Earlier this month, Nancy Guthrie, the elderly and infirm mother of Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was violently taken from her home in Tucson, Arizona.
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The four Democratic members of the JBC, which controls the state budget, asked with growing consternation why the Department of Corrections hadn’t brought them a plan to address overcrowding, to step up releases of old and infirm inmates, or to improve its own shortcomings.
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Basic, an obscure album of oddball electronic rhythms and supremely wobbly guitar released in 1984 by Lou Reed collaborators Robert Quine and Fred Maher.
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On March 4, the walls of a Travis County courtroom in Austin felt wobbly with grief.
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And nobody knows more about being a target of The Odyssey’s most insecure fans than Emily Wilson.
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This finding specifically held true for people with fearful and preoccupied attachment styles, two subtypes of insecure attachment associated with a craving for intimacy but, respectively, a deep fear of it or a fear of rejection and abandonment.
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“Jiggly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jiggly. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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