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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
In the nineteen-seventies, a progressive movement in higher ed took this idea further, encouraging professors to emphasize free-wheeling discussion over top-down instruction.
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Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
30 Sep. 2025
Alderman has wheeled the mural to the courthouse to raise awareness about her granddaughter and the justice Alderman seeks.
In the 2022 and 2024 cycles, pro-Israel groups swung into Democratic primaries, spending money against progressive critics of the Jewish state and keeping several out of Congress.
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David Weigel,
semafor.com,
7 Oct. 2025
Rather than slash and swing away after spotting the play, Stott tried to get the ball down and deaden it, increasing the level of difficulty.
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