wobbling

Sometimes wab·bling

[wob-ling]

adjective

1. that wobbles or causes to wobble.

Other Word Forms

• wobblingly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of wobbling¹

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

Example Sentences

By the start of 2025, some analysts were already wondering if the rally was wobbling.

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Data collected by the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope show that our galaxy is not only rotating and wobbling but also sending out a vast wave that travels outward from its center.

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A World Cup campaign still on track - two more victories and they're there - but an endgame that saw Scotland wobbling across the winning line, like a marathon runner whose legs have gone.

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As they watched, they saw the two stars wobbling around on their orbits, and worked out that this pattern could only be caused by an exoplanet on a right-angled, ferris-wheel like path.

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Huntley moved to Los Angeles in 2022 with an eye on the silver screen but found himself arriving in a city still wobbling.

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