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wobbly

[wob-lee] / ˈwɒb li /


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Is government going wobbly on its migration plans?

From BBC Jun. 25, 2026

Investors expected several cuts this year, on top of three in late 2025, thanks in part to a wobbly job market that left officials worried that high rates were doing more harm than good.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

He’s just bracingly honest and notoriously wobbly when asked to verbalize the significance of everything and anything — from his poetically dense lyricism to the whole of his revered music career.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 2026

Bessent and Takaichi jointly worry about a wobbly yen, which brushed the psychological barrier of 160 to the dollar on April 30, before official intervention beat it back to about 158.

From Barron's May 14, 2026

“Here,” I say, plopping the bowls on the tiny, wobbly table in the kitchen area.

From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist

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

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 3, 2022

That could slow the winds and make the Arctic vortex weaker and wobblier.

From The Verge Feb. 1, 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

Zoom in closer, and that career arc looks wobblier than a late-career Manning spiral.

From Slate Mar. 6, 2016

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 Gillmore, Inez Haynes




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