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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shimmied
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Cars honked their horns and cyclists pulled over to tune in as flags fluttered in the wind, fans clambered to see the screen, and people hugged and shouted.
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Three mules ferrying bags of cement clambered past us on their own dirt track that ran shorter and even steeper up to the top.
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Ortiz bopped 208 in his first five seasons with the Red Sox.
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At 16, Avtan bopped around her bedroom in West Hills to the digital hardcore and gabber of acts like Lolita Storm.
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Wilson scrambled back to his feet after diving headfirst into second, then bolted for third base.
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Germany scrambled to reduce its dependence on Russian gas after the invasion of Ukraine.
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The resulting 6° to 7° C of global warming shuffled the makeup of plant and dinosaur species on land and caused a mass extinction of corals and other marine species.
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The company has since shuffled several leaders, including naming a new human resources chief and the company’s first chief digital officer.
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Yet robust economic growth has proved elusive, even as government debt has climbed, leaving successive administrations with little firepower to fix a growing list of related challenges, from crumbling infrastructure to a chronic housing shortage.
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While other similarly sized cities in the ranking have fallen, Pittsburgh climbed by five spots in 2026.
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Then Surge zipped through a tunnel and pranced around the ring.
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Troy — who is a Pony of the Americas, according to his owners, the Beaulieu family — pranced around his yard upon exiting the hospital trailer, receiving pets and apples.
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Police swarmed the neighborhood in the moments before the arrest.
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San Diego police officers swarmed the site and arrested Abdulkareem.
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The high school musical romance Grease hand-jived its way into theaters during the summer of 1978.
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“Shimmied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shimmied. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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