Thesaurus results for JINKING

jinking

verb

present participle of jink

as in weaving

to move suddenly aside or to and fro jinking here and there with remarkable agility, the thieving urchin frustrated all attempts to catch him

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Entertainment Tonight correspondent Emily Curl will introduce the package, weaving in interviews and on-location interviews from the newsmagazine’s 45-year library of episodes.

— Josef Adalian, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2026
Adela follows her grandfather’s footsteps while transforming his political and anthropological work into art, weaving a sound map from languages at risk of disappearing.

— Callum McLennan, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026

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The masked person, carrying a distinctive blue plaid backpack, was last seen ducking into the SEPTA metro train’s Suburban Station.

— David K. Li, NBC news, 20 Aug. 2026
Coming up, the mounting questions about that elaborate ruse that had the president ducking into a catering truck to switch planes.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of ducking

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In the small Sri Lankan surf town of Hiriketiya, tuk-tuks whiz past, dodging potholes and dogs sleeping in the sun.

— Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2026
Because the sites are generally located at least 100 feet away from any trails, visiting them can require bushwhacking through swampy terrain or dense undergrowth, dodging branches and the occasional cobweb.

— John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026

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Notable among the findings is a road at least ¾ of a mile long with features, including a zigzagging route, characteristic of Inca construction.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Hundreds of them have been used as the language of the brand’s environmental design, with sculptures of towering trunks zigzagging up their five-story atrium.

— Lauren Sinclair, Curbed, 7 Aug. 2026

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