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  • present participle of wobble.
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wobbling

American  
[wob-ling] / ˈwɒb lɪŋ /
Sometimes wabbling

adjective

  1. that wobbles or causes to wobble.


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Etymology

Origin of wobbling

First recorded in 1650–60; wobble + -ing 2

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It’s an era of natural history with striking parallels to our own — climate change, extinction, devastating fires, a wobbling balance between humans and the rest of the natural world.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Like the large so-called moon jar that opens the exhibition, these capacious bowls glazed in eggshell white flaunt their foibles with wobbling edges that give character to otherwise pure forms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

Momentum swung again in the third when a Wardley overhand right sent Dubois wobbling.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

A planet orbiting both stars experiences competing gravitational pulls, which cause its orbit to slowly rotate, or precess, much like a spinning top wobbling under gravity.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

We walked back up Old Main Street, holding hands for a while, walking in that awkward way you do when you become a sort of three-legged creature, bodies scrunched close, a comfortable, wobbling stumble-forward.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

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