Thesaurus results for WAGGLING

waggling

verb

present participle of waggle

as in flapping

to move from side to side or up and down with quick jerky motions the rabbit waggled its ears and hopped away

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Recent Examples of waggling But what happens if a waggling bee is unsure of its directions? — Marta Hill, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026 When LaBeija, as Gus the Theatre Cat, finally strolled onstage to revisit his glory days, waggling his long, polished claws, a younger Gus (Jonathan Burke) appeared, like a mirror dancing toward him. — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2026 And thanks to social media videos of their head-tilting, leg waggling antics, these web-slingers are in high demand. — Alina Hartounian, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025

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Verb

Still, the very idea of such a thing freezes my brain, locking it into a mental feedback loop that’s the equivalent of running around in a tight circle flapping my arms wildly and screaming.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2026
Chris, often strung out on morphine, his memory and his wits addled by cancer, has become a jaw-flapping liability.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of flapping

Verb

Instamall plans to keep adding brands, but it is already hooked into the inventory systems of its existing partners, so expanding the service to new cities could be as easy as flicking a switch.

— Evan Clark, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026
Coming for a variety of longtime critics of the merger, opposition rose and suspicion about the settlement served to pour gasoline on an already flicking fire.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of flicking

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At the time, the project felt hyperbolic, largely because of the finger-wagging interventions of Zillah, a modern-day punk anarchist who ranted about Reagan as a new Hitler.

— Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
The Rolling Stones are not done wagging their Foreign Tongues.

— Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of wagging

Verb

Previous research by the researchers documented twitching limbs and moving retinas in another jumping spider species.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Nov. 2026
This is not easy for Robin (Griffin), who, judging by his nervously twitching legs and tendency to info-dump on interlocutors, finds ordinary interactions very stressful.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of twitching

Verb

Our little skiff, known around here as an alijo, is bobbing like a toy as our captain gently tugs on a few lines descending into the water.

— Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
On Collins Ave in Miami Beach, the yachts along the intracoastal were bobbing nearly at street level.

— Alex Harris Updated September 27, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of bobbing

Verb

Watchstanders got a distress call just before noon from the good Samaritan, who told them that there was a vessel with smoke coming from it roughly five miles west of the beach, with a person waving their arms on board.

— CBS News, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
Milwaukee fans in the crowd of 40,514, many waving yellow towels and some wearing cheeseheads, brought a Badger State feel to Tropicana Field.

— Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of waving

Verb

But in his own drawing, De Kooning let rip with liner brushes, swishing them about all over the paper, achieving undulant lines that contract and expand like living creatures.

— Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2026
One displays images of water swishing around the screen’s golden frame.

— Tania Azhang, Sacbee.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of swishing

Verb

The celebrities sucked up a lot of air, and so the show leaned in, switching to all-celebrity casts.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026
Anthropic’s launch of Claude Duet may be partly defensive, giving Claude Pro and Max users a way to hand off more of their daily tasks without switching to a rival’s assistant.

— Wen Shao, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of switching

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