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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
Order the iconic kaya toast on fluffy milk bread, squiggled with bright green pandan-coconut jam.
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Becky Duffett,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
8 June 2026
The cake is gingery, light and moist, squiggled with thick cream cheese frosting.
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Rachel Bernhard,
jsonline.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Becky Duffett,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
8 June 2026
The cake is gingery, light and moist, squiggled with thick cream cheese frosting.
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Rachel Bernhard,
jsonline.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for squiggled
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The governor, at first, tossed the question to Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Rebecca Tepper.
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But the referee caught him and tossed him from the match.
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Abraham Lincoln furiously scribbled in Springfield on June 27, 1858, firing off a gruff note to the editor-in-chief of the Chicago Press & Tribune, then in business for only 11 years.
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Interviewers often leave meetings with random observations scribbled on a notepad.
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One woman ordered some home furniture while two children fidgeted nearby.
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Between each dance was an excruciating silence during which network-TV producers monitored and reset their equipment while the men fidgeted onstage like excitable children.
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Pinned to their random assortment of hats were scrawled, handmade signs proclaiming liberty or death.
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On the wall across the bar are autographs of former USMNT greats, scrawled inside a mighty shield.
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Many a club’s board would have twitched in the face of the bare data, but the chain of command above Arteta stayed the course, and the FOMO is so high that tickets for Palace away this weekend are going for £45,000 ($60,000) on resale sites.
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My jaw twitched uncontrollably.
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Once the squid gather near the surface, lines fitted with bait are lowered into the water and rapidly jerked up and down to imitate small prey such as shrimp, triggering strikes before the catch is reeled aboard.
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Suddenly, the tent jerked and wobbled.
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Belloumi’s 64th-minute strike with his left foot broke the deadlock in the second game of the two-leg affair and Gelhardt made sure with a low shot that squirmed past the Millwall goalkeeper.
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His Japanese guest, usually a paragon of diplomatic cool, visibly squirmed.
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The wife of friend Isaac Leonard Ellwood suggested that two wires twisted together would hold the nail in place better — and the inexpensive yet effective design stuck.
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The boardwalk was annihilated up and down the peninsula, crushed into pieces and twisted up like a wooden snake.
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“Squiggled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squiggled. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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