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wriggles

  • plural of wriggle.
  • present tense form of wriggle (3rd person singular).

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Ulster break forward with a darting run from Stuart McCloskey, who gives it out to Rob Baloucoune and runs into trouble as he wriggles his way inside as Clermont survive a scare.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2024

Darragh sticks out her tongue and wriggles it.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2023

When a nematode wriggles around a petri dish, what’s going on inside a tiny roundworm’s even tinier brain?

From Scientific American • Aug. 21, 2023

The pain is in the waiting, for however long that may be, to see how "Strange New Worlds" wriggles the Enterprise out of this bind.

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2023

Pilar suggests they go to an exhibit at the Frick Museum, so Lourdes wriggles into her Chanel suit, the gold-coin buttons already straining across her middle, and they take the subway to Manhattan.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García