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wobbly

[wob-lee] / ˈwɒb li /


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Is historic male dominance in sports teetering like a marble Adonis on a wobbly pedestal?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The court heard Fong also called into the garden for Cookie to get down, which is when Jones came towards her "wobbly".

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

GameStop’s sales have been wobbly, amid the flight to digital gaming.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

But I did, letting the edge of the bow sit loosely, even wobbly, between my fingers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

We only have two wobbly chairs that came with the apartment, along with the two narrow beds we sleep on.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies ostensibly pegged to the value of a stable asset like the dollar that have sometimes proven wobblier than promised.

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2022

The higher and lower the reflected illusion goes, the wobblier and more distorted the mental landscape becomes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2022

They can only destroy each other, and our empathy for them, which seesaws back and forth as their statuses get wobblier.

From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2019

My feet got wobblier, my efforts to loop back to the starting point slower and my water breaks more frequent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2018

His stance grew wobblier with each passing second, but somehow he managed to make eye contact with me.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Since that time, scientists have used what they have learned about gravitational waves to observe a black hole devour a neutron star, glimpse inside neutron stars and even discover the wobbliest black hole ever seen.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2023

Since then, the discovery of gravitational waves have allowed scientists to peer inside neutron stars and discover the wobbliest black hole ever detected.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2023

Science news headlines regularly tout how gravitational waves are allowing scientists to do new things like peer inside neutron stars and discover the wobbliest black hole ever detected.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2022

Open to become the first woman in 27 years to hold all four majors in a calendar year, it would cap another milestone for the record-breaking American: the wobbliest dominant season in tennis history.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2015

And their boxes and steamships are the wobbliest things.”

From Maida's Little Shop by Inez Haynes Gillmore




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