bobble
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In Wednesday’s slalom, Shiffrin laid down a vintage first run in 47.13 seconds that gave her a lead of 0.82 seconds, despite a bobble halfway down the course.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
At third base, Hernández tagged up once, then again after seeing Frelick’s bobble, before finally breaking for home plate as the Brewers relayed the ball in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
Some of the suspected hoaxes, like the rescued hedgehog that turned out to be a hat bobble and the North Korean row over Alan Titchmarsh's trousers were actually real.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2024
That bobble, Clark said, might have made the difference.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
He pointed to a green humped structure with a bobble head attached to one side by a stubby neck made of coiled spring.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
Fujii decorated these with a basic white sugar glaze and silver bobbles.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2023
Dr Ford urged cat owners to keep hair bobbles, hair ties and ribbons away from cats "as they are clearly very tempting to play with, chew and swallow".
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2023
In less than five minutes, the Purple Team was up 4-0 through well-placed hits and bobbles by the Batters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
She came through an elite training camp a few weeks ago with top scores, and the bobbles she experienced Friday were born of rustiness, not of fear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
And he bobbles about on the waves, Brave boys!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 9, 1892 by Various
Lyon goalkeeper Christiane Endler should have collected Mariona Caldentey's free-kick as it bobbled towards her, but the presence of Blackstenius put her off and she fumbled the ball backwards.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
Marcus Smart fired a two-handed pass to James, who bobbled it and slapped it to Luke Kennard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026
We struggled so hard to handle Cuba, and bobbled it so often.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
In the third inning, Betts hit a ground ball to A’s shortstop Jacob Wilson, who bobbled the ball to allow Betts to reach first and Chris Taylor to score from third.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
My beam performance in the event final wasn’t quite as golden: I’d bobbled on my front tuck and would have fallen all the way off the beam if I hadn’t grabbed it with both hands.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
With the way the park is, the ball is bobbling about everywhere.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024
UCLA’s Colson Yankoff was decent in his first game returning kickoffs even while bobbling one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2023
Tagovailoa opened training camp Wednesday by tossing a deep ball to receiver Jaylen Waddle, who made a bobbling catch over safety Jevon Holland for a 40-yard completion.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
It's an unmistakable image of the Disney+ show: Mando in his silver armor and face-shielding helmet and Grogu bobbling along, behind or beside with his own gleaming protective hovercraft.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2023
Because life wasn’t really an ocean, and she wasn’t really a little boat bobbling about on it.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
