squiggle
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Richards’s signature style is to break down complex behavioral-finance concepts into minimalist line drawings — sometimes just a squiggle — with only a few words.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026
"That's what happened here. We had all sort of noticed this fishhook squiggle on the rock. It was pretty prominent because it was really, really deep."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024
In other scenes, such as one where he's specifically asked his name, squiggle lines appear over his lips, suggesting that a spell has been cast to prevent him from revealing himself.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2024
Grooves in the hillside squiggle down toward a pasture and bike path at its base.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024
He drew each squiggle and explained what it meant.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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In this script, the lines of good and evil aren’t drawn in black and white or even gray — they’re a tangle of squiggles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
The genus name uncus means “hook” in Latin, after the fishhooklike squiggles on the rock left by the fossils.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 19, 2024
After seeing more of the worm-like squiggles the team paid closer attention, taking note of fishhook's characteristics.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024
My hearing had gotten worse, as shown on an audiogram filled with X’s, O’s and squiggles connecting them.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024
I held the skate edge and scraped it against the locker, over the words, and in a few seconds it was a barren waste of squiggles.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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Yields squiggled following the latest batch of reports on the economy.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
The book, compiled between 1967-1968, features Sir Paul McCartney's draft of the famous song alongside poetry and doodles squiggled by the music legend.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2022
Over the course of a profoundly productive journalism career, he was able to translate all those squiggled notes into some of the finest long-form writing The Post has ever published.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 15, 2020
When the EKG was connected to the electrodes on her chest, a horizontal line squiggled out, followed by a few tiny waves marking the last electrical activity in her heart.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2020
Tater squiggled out of Abby’s grip and leapt to the ground.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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Some look like earthworms and others are covered in tiny bristles, squiggling about.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2022
Squeeze the chocolate onto the lined baking sheet, swirling or squiggling the lines to make decorative shapes.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2022
But just below the surface the music teems with inner details: flourishes of offbeat counterpoint for the voices, squiggling riffs for the instruments.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2021
It's great for squiggling on a slice of pizza or on top of a bowl of fried rice, and its flavor can be found carried into all types of food products.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2021
They screamed for more and I obliged, squiggling my feet and slip-sliding across the wooden floor, jumping into the air and landing in a near split by the blackboard, shouting “Eeeee-yowwww!”
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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