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Recent Examples of twiddleWith her grandson still twiddling his thumbs on the bench, Dolores has now become the main attraction.—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 15 May 2025 But Ragazzi is not the type of man who twiddles his thumbs.—Sandra Salibian, WWD, 25 Feb. 2025 Season 2 stagnated in part because the story involved a whole lot of doing nothing, as the girls in the past wasted away in the barren winter and the women in the present twiddled their thumbs without confronting each other.—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025 The elites got out of positions quickly, while retail investors were left twiddling their thumbs and absorbing brutal losses.—Trent Hoerr, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for twiddle
Max spins Schadenfreude circles around Christian before towing him back to the boat with another Jet Ski.
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Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
21 Oct. 2025
The material is washed, processed locally into balls, flakes and/or pellets that meet European industrial standards, and then spun into a high-grade thread, without blending with virgin plastic or chemical additives.
Thirty-seven, Qing Yuan thought when a cleaner wheeled the corpse of a woman into the morgue.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
Still, Duclair had time to wheel around the net and find an open Schaefer, who got away from Leddy and scored his second of the season from point-blank range.
Throughout the years, the company artists have danced on the grass in the museum’s sculpture court or glided and twirled in the natural light that streams from gallery windows.
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Marcia Luttrell,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Oct. 2025
Up-and-comer status gifted el Khaleel’s group, Mantronix, with the glory of a four-hundred-dollar gig at the rec center, home to youth basketball games, baton-twirling competitions, after-school child care, and — on occasion — community concerts.
The county, where per-capita personal income levels are nearly 40% higher than the national median, is also seen as a pioneer for its financing model, which created a revolving loan fund to replace private sources of equity and keep the units owned by the public.
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Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
20 Oct. 2025
Beyond supernatural encounters, the Beaux-Arts hotel is also a glittering grande dame of the French Quarter, with a revolving carousel bar, pristine marble floors, and a wooden grandfather clock that’s chimed in the lobby since 1909.
Adam Weirib of Yanks Go Yard recently suggested the Yankees could look to swing a trade for Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal.
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Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Oct. 2025
After decades of minimalist, thin-rimmed glassware, the surrealist alternative makes sense within the pendulum swing toward maximalist design and the blurring of lines between art and the purely functional.
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