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as in tossed
to make jerky or restless movements
a pediatrician's waiting room full of squiggling toddlers
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Recent Examples of squiggled
The cake is gingery, light and moist, squiggled with thick cream cheese frosting.
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Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for squiggled
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The 75-year-old al-Maliki, from the Shiite Islamist Dawa Party, tossed his hat in the political ring and won the support of the Coordination Framework, a collection of Shia parties that is the largest parliamentary bloc.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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King then allegedly tossed the blanket onto the grass in the front yard.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
28 Jan. 2026
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At these delightfully divey watering holes, every visible surface is covered in dollars scribbled with the initials, anniversaries, hometowns, inside jokes, dates, or names of anyone who has darkened the doors of that particular bar over the past fifty years—or maybe just the past week.—
Skye Sherman,
Southern Living,
21 Jan. 2026
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Gradually, the forest of memorabilia began to thin out, though bare objects kept popping up in place of those Federer had already scribbled on.—
Owen Lewis,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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Children fidgeted in the relentless August heat.—
Jacqui Gifford,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Sep. 2025
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Vandals recently scrawled graffiti inside Yosemite National Park near the popular Bridalveil Falls Trail.—
Outside,
Outside,
27 Jan. 2026
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The bomber was carrying a toy gun with neo-Nazi references written all over it, including the words For Agartha scrawled across the barrel, according to investigators.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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The bonito’s body twitched until Yamasaki slid a thin metal wire down the column of its spinal cord, a second step called shinkei jime, which arrests its nervous system.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2026
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Their usefulness remains an open question At the back of a conference hall at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas, a humanoid robot twitched through a preprogrammed wave for a crowd of cell phone cameras—a classic scene of high spectacle and unclear utility at CES.—
Eric Sullivan,
Scientific American,
6 Jan. 2026
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Aisha jerked and opened her eyes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
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The two stood nose-to-nose on the field when the Steelers player grabbed onto Chase’s facemask, jerked his head and appeared to punch him.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
16 Nov. 2025
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The open section of their session lasted for 15 minutes — and Howe will have squirmed through every second — but there were laughs amid the stretches and shuttle runs.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Karrie Downs confirmed that 99% of what is on Facebook is exaggerated or twisted in discussing social media photos of their property and confirmed there's no proof of where those photos were taken.—
J.D. Miles,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Defensive coordinator Jesse Minter drew up two first-quarter looks that sent completely unblocked rushers at Nix, and the Chargers twisted Denver’s offensive line around multiple times with exotic blitzes that sent rushers looping around to opposite gaps.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Squiggled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squiggled. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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