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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.
—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
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
Adjective
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Your sunnies should be comfortable and durable, not rickety!—
Katie Decker-Jacoby,
StyleCaster,
26 Mar. 2026
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Still, those sorts of phony statements have deeply diminished faith in our elections and our increasingly rickety democracy.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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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.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
11 Mar. 2026
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Every part of me that can jiggle is now jiggling.—
Jessica Wang,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2026
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The show provided a side of the singer few had seen — a bit doddering, sometimes befuddled and the source of the series’ comedy.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Navigating the dump was precarious.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
15 Apr. 2026
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Recent federal legislation has made the financial outlook for rural hospitals more precarious.—
Daniel R. George,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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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.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Feb. 2026
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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.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
22 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Red lines and deadlines imposed by the United States, even when backed by the threat of genocide, can turn out to be rather wobbly.—
Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2026
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Despite the outsized headline figure, there were further indications that the job market remains wobbly.—
Rob Wile,
NBC news,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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As a result, many individuals go through life feeling incredibly confused, extremely insecure and always lacking a crucial piece of the jigsaw.—
Malana VanTyler,
Sacbee.com,
15 Apr. 2026
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Working-age adults and seniors are increasingly insecure In 2024, higher proportions of householders under 60, and of householders with children, reported struggling to meet their home energy needs than in 2020.—
Diana Hernández,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Jiggly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jiggly. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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