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zigzagging

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verb

present participle of zigzag
as in weaving
to move suddenly aside or to and fro the fleeing car zigzagged down the highway at breakneck speed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for zigzagging
Verb
  • Craft is the connective tissue of our history, weaving itself through each iteration and enabling new players to interpret it in novel ways.
    Bill Connolly, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2024
  • But police must notice a primary violation, such as speeding or weaving across lanes, to cite motorists for violating the cellphone law.
    David A. Lieb, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • During his speech, Kissel made winding references to railroads, attorneys’ fees, scratch-off tickets, casinos, Hartford, car fatalities, troopers, eye-hand coordination, Jack LaLanne, Methuselah, the Bible, and hallucinogenic mushrooms.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2025
  • One way that’s easy to manifest is through maximalist bedding with punchy colors, big stripes, and winding patterns.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 25 May 2025
Adjective
  • Then into motorboats for hair-raising dashes through tortuous canals and across rough water to dams far back in some vast marsh.
    Nash Buckingham, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2025
  • Rainy days aren’t much better, and the summers are quickly becoming just as tortuous.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2025
Adjective
  • Horseshoe Bend gets its name from the sinuous river meander around a sandstone formation.
    USA Today, USA Today, 11 June 2025
  • In both areas, the rooms’ furnishings, from the coffee tables to cocoon-like headboards, are curved, a reference, general manager Jordi Compte Stevens surmises, to the sinuous geometry of Priorat’s landscapes.
    Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • The line currently features twisted, Western landscape-inspired takes on classic silhouettes across jackets and jeans with sleek hardware details (made in collaboration with industrial designer David Caon), which are currently available on the brand’s e-commerce.
    Emily Mercer, Footwear News, 17 June 2025
  • Wednesday: Eve of the Outcasts: What starts off as a fun school carnival (shudder!) falls under Wednesday’s spell to make for a twisted tour through the macabre.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • Presidio manzanita, an evergreen shrub, requires unusual serpentine soils to grow.
    Megan Ross, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
  • Some leaf-mining insects make distinct patterns, like squiggles or serpentine shapes, while others make irregular blotches, like this species.
    Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • These ears are actually distorted spiral arms that were likely given their shape from a combination of wind pushing on the gas and the rotation of the galaxy itself, according to the researchers.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2025
  • The spiral theory helps to illuminate the dynamics of our solar system, according to Faherty.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 10 June 2025
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“Zigzagging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zigzagging. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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