wobbly

variants also wabbly

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Recent Examples of wobbly High financing costs, a wobbly economy, flat rents and overbuilding in certain markets nudged many other developers to cancel or delay rental projects. Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025 And yet, Milei’s political future—and the future of his reforms—remains wobbly. Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025 Consumer sentiment soured in October as a government shutdown threatens to weaken a wobbly economy beset by an uptick in inflation and a sharp slowdown of hiring, fresh data on Friday showed. ABC News, 10 Oct. 2025 The film’s greatest feat isn’t its wobbly characterizations, but its setting — the stretches of strip malls and chain businesses that make up most of America but rarely get showcased onscreen so thoughtfully. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025 Besides a brief demo showing the new robot undergoing a wobbly calibration, the action comes exclusively from older Figure 02s. Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025 Then came a wobbly ball on his first pass to a receiver. Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2025 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wobbly
trembly
Adjective
  • That week’s host, Emily Blunt, did the trembly voice-over.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020

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“Wobbly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wobbly. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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