shuffling
Americanadjective
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moving in a dragging or clumsy manner.
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prevaricating; evasive.
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Example Sentences
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Those supports are a vital part of a long-term-care plan, and could do more to help stretch funds than any shuffling around of index funds or tax strategizing.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
An AFP journalist captured rare footage at Al-Rahmaniyah camp showing exhausted women shuffling under a punishing sun, jerrycans swaying on their heads after hours spent waiting for water at a distant well.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
On a corner, a charity-operated food truck doled out lunches to a long, shuffling line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
For all of their recent scuffing and shuffling, these loaded, baseball-ruining Dodgers should be able to survive an Ohtani skip day every so often.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
Racing back into the valley, he soon found it: the strange, shuffling thing that smelt so rotten.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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