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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twiddles
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Once installed, every pull of the chain rotates a circular drum displaying the numbers zero through three.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
5 Feb. 2026 -
Towson University rotates nearly 100 nursing students to help.—
Janay Reece,
CBS News,
4 Feb. 2026
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Let her courage linger while the sports calendar spins uncontrollably.—
Jerry Brewer,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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Angular momentum, which describes how much rotational motion an object has, depends on both how fast the object spins and how its mass is distributed.—
Amy Pope,
The Conversation,
2 Feb. 2026
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The closures come as Amazon pivots its focus to open more than 100 new Whole Foods Markets in the next few years, the company said in a news release.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
27 Jan. 2026
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The tour then pivots to Latin America with performances in Bogotá, Colombia; Lima, Peru; Santiago, Chile; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and São Paulo, Brazil throughout October.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
13 Jan. 2026
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Shauna Martel, a teaching assistant at the Osher Map Library twirls a massive globe around and points to Australia.—
Jackie Northam,
NPR,
7 Dec. 2025
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To load the product onto the brush, Barnes swirls the tool into the pan twice and taps it twice to prevent fallout.—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
12 Dec. 2025
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The lights are dim and jazzy music swirls the intimate crowd.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
10 Oct. 2025
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The vases also reflect his perspective that design should slow down and allow consumers to hold onto items for longer than the fashion cycle typically revolves today.—
Sarah Jones,
Footwear News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Writer-director Annemarie Jacir takes on her largest-scale production to date with Palestine 36, a panoramic drama that interweaves period re-creations with evocative archival footage and revolves among characters both fictional and historical.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Nov. 2025
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The robot wheels forward on flat ground, raises its legs in a motion similar to a dog climbing stairs, and then resumes rolling where the terrain allows.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Jan. 2026
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Stripped to her underwear and tied to a chair, Evelyn begs for her life as Gein wheels out a corpse, wraps its long-dead fingers around the handle of a hammer, and brings both inanimate objects down on Evelyn’s head.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
4 Oct. 2025
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Stafford, who turns 38 on Saturday, worked through a back issue that sidelined him for all of training camp and passed for a league-best 46 touchdowns and 4,707 yards.—
Gary Klein,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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Leavitt turns the tables on media outrage as FBI seizes Fulton election documents.—
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FOXNews.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Twiddles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twiddles. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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