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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 dunk led to dozens and dozens of light-up foam wands, a game-day give out, being tossed from the upper deck into the lower bowl.—
Tom Murphy,
Arkansas Online,
21 Jan. 2026
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Not tired or wretched or tempest-tossed, but poor.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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The drawings that filled Yorke and Donwood’s sketchbooks became some of the band’s most iconic insignia, tattooed on arms and scribbled on three-ring binders.—
Zoe Si,
New Yorker,
19 Dec. 2025
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The 68 photos released by the Oversight Committee Thursday also include several photo closeups of words scribbled on a back, foot, hip and a woman’s chest.—
Julie K. Brown,
Miami Herald,
18 Dec. 2025
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Children fidgeted in the relentless August heat.—
Jacqui Gifford,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Sep. 2025
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The cat had blood pouring from its mouth and was surrounded by arcane symbols scrawled on the walls.—
Emma Seiwell,
Mercury News,
15 Jan. 2026
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The cat had blood pouring from its mouth and was surrounded by arcane symbols scrawled on the walls.—
Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
14 Jan. 2026
Verb
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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
Verb
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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
Verb
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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 22 Jan. 2026.
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