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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shimmying
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Not robots clambering over rigs.
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And all this after clambering up through the Championship play-offs last season.
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The handful of cops were bopping to Michael Jackson.
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There is a bopping, rhythmic assonance to Ginsberg’s unspooling lines, more incantation than poetry.
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Nothing is worse than swarming gnats and flies.
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Groups of amateur sleuths also cropped up in the hollows of tragedy to wrestle with the case and analyze rumors swarming the Horman family in online forums, echoing a familiar pattern of behavior on the internet in the face of long-unsolved criminal cases.
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In an era of digital overwhelm and social isolation, gathering around a table, shuffling tiles and building order out of chaos together feels like exactly what people are reaching for right now.
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The model of shuffling that the new result depends on, like Bayer and Diaconis’ before it, still assumes that the cards riffle down one by one, rather than in clumps.
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In Texas, an 18-wheeler dropped $800,000 in dimes onto a highway in April 2025, sending crews scrambling as coins scattered across the roadway.
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In 2024, a major ransomware attack targeting Fulton County’s computer systems left the county without working phones and scrambling to continue services.
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Targeting inefficiencies in squid jigging Industrial squid fishing typically relies on a method known as jigging.
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My favorite way to work a Texas rig is jigging it.
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In addition, its luxury pricing will turn off many hobbyists and content creators who are scrabbling to make ends meet.
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Imagine combat choreographed by ants, swarms of elbows and legs scrabbling to emerge victorious.
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There’s no games, no shucking and jiving, everybody is really bringing their A-game.
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“Shimmying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shimmying. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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