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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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The program will rapidly scale FPV drone production, and swarming technology means one pilot can control multiple drones, amplifying human capabilities rather than replacing them.
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Think your back yard can get buggy in the summer—with mosquitoes, flies, moths, wasps, bees, lightning bugs, crickets, and more swarming, buzzing, and chirping everywhere?
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Enola dutifully trudges between clues and possibilities, shuffling through crime scenes and racing around shady spaces, all of this much more paint-by-numbers than connect-the-dots.
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Colombia is trying its luck from distance, but Costa has been equal to each shot, first punching away Jefferson Lerma's rocket from the right, about 25 yards out, and then shuffling his feet to his left and catching Jhon Arias's shot from about the same distance.
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Footage of civilians scrambling for cover or compressing bullet wounds typically arrives here from overseas.
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That’s leaving the emerging space economy scrambling to secure launches that are in short supply.
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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 7 Jul. 2026.
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