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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  1. weaving
  2. ducking
  3. dodging
  4. zigzagging
Verb
  • Combat sequences, set in the Pacific theater and filmed in Australia, look expansive and authentic, weaving around hundreds of soldiers running and shouting and shooting at once.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The process was particularly intricate, as each interlacing detail on the bodice had to be carefully constructed by weaving hundreds of meters of rouleau and while maintaining the tension and precision of the corsetry underneath.
    — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of weaving
Verb
  • Lastly, try ducking into Casey Rubber Stamps, founded in 1979, in the West Village, and a neighborhood fixture since 2003.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The system lets robots choose suitable movements, such as stepping over objects, ducking under overhead barriers, or turning sideways to pass through narrow gaps.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of ducking
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  • This moment is different, and all the advice about dodging this dodgy issue is now wrong.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • He's accused the Democrat of dodging questions about his own record and trying to distract voters with personal attacks.
    — AJC.com, AJC.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of dodging
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  • Starting and ending downtown, the course took runners in a zigzagging pattern as far south as 35th Street in Bronzeville, as far west as Damen Avenue on the Near West Side, and as far north as West Sheridan Road in East Lakeview.
    — Asal Rezaei, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Released three years after the similarly freewheeling Nekkuja, the album bubbles over with interdimensional ambition and zigzagging ideas, anchored by her ability to command bewildering expanses of melody and form.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of zigzagging
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