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wobbling

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noun

variants also wabbling

wobbling

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verb

variants also wabbling
present participle of wobble
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Recent Examples of wobbling
Noun
Most exoplanetary discoveries instead arise through far more indirect means, such as the dip in a star’s light caused by a world passing between its sun and our telescope or the tiny wobbling of a star caused by an orbiting planet’s gravitational tug. Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
Signs of life from defensive sectors and consumer cyclicals wobbling might suggest the market is more preoccupied with near-term downside macroeconomic risk, as we likely are headed into a government shutdown and an official-data vacuum. Michael Santoli, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025 Designed to reduce wobbling and provide additional support, the lightweight slip-ons boast the benefits of orthopedic shoes while looking far from them. Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2025 Only a few dozen have been directly imaged; the vast majority have been detected indirectly, primarily through the transit method (when a planet moves across a star and slightly dims its light) or radial velocity measurements (stars wobbling slightly because a planet is in orbit). Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025 Jurors saw some wobbling footage that appeared to be taken from inside a bush, though prosecutors did not explicitly make clear if the footage was taken from Routh's perch. Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2025 The most common form, cervical dystonia, affects the neck, causing wobbling or worse, the inability to hold the head upright. Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025 But the Axis was guaranteed to fail, and the signs of that failure were visible long before the Axis started wobbling. Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wobbling
Adjective
  • This is the bright-side scenario of course, one that would require the recent wobbly action in consumer cyclicals and consumer-credit names to reverse or at least get no worse.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Heat players tell war stories of wobbly knees.
    Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As the title suggests, its cast was entirely composed of couples in which one party was ready to get hitched, and the other had hesitations.
    James Factora, Them., 3 Oct. 2025
  • However, lofty goals often lead to significant hesitation or avoidance.
    Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The brief clip appeared to show one of the landing skids shaking moments before the crash.
    Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Place flour in a shallow dish; dredge chicken lightly in flour, shaking off excess.
    Elizabeth Nelson, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Countless moths beat frenetically around the trap’s white, diaphanous panels, which are swaying with ghostly ripples in a gentle breeze.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In his own post, the Cavs guard shared the same photo, along with a clip showing an aerial view of the proposal, which took place by a pool surrounded by swaying palm trees.
    Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Even all-world corner Pat Surtain II didn’t have his best day, with Colts quarterback Daniel Jones not hesitating to go after him on routes over the middle.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2025
  • As adults, this pattern can look like hesitating to ask for help, avoiding vulnerability or keeping emotional struggles private, even from those closest to you.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The Street is critical of Cornell for not initiating enough changes and corrections to improve Target’s business, which has been faltering for several seasons.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The Lions moved to 2-1, while the Ravens are now 1-2 after faltering late in this game.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The funding pause leaves many new homeowners in high-flood risk areas scrambling for protection and could halt the processing of current damage claims.
    Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Contrast that with Robert Lewandowski, whose stutter, pause, judder, wait for the ’keeper to dive and then place it wide of the post didn’t work for Barcelona during their surprise defeat away to Sevilla a few hours later.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The administration’s lurching one way and another with tariffs is another example.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The title track opens the affair by lurching and creeping forward for ten minutes with odd, off-putting lyrics.
    Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025

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