nudge

“Suddenly with a plop, the egg landed on the straw. With clucks of pleasure the hen shook her feathers, nudged the egg with her beak, and left,” Goodall wrote almost 60 years later.

There’s also a ghost in the movie, I think — at least, there’s a heavy hinge that shouldn’t be able to open without a spectral nudge.

Retired judge Amar Saran says the mounting backlog has forced judges into a "cut-grass approach" - issuing quick, standard orders, from nudging the government to act to directing lower courts to handle the matter.

They adopted a Daft Punk-ish distance on “Electronic Performers,” touting how “MIDI clocks ring in my mind ... We need envelope filters to say how we feel,” but they didn’t really need that wink and nudge.

"This is not just a gentle nudge; it's a bold challenge to a system that has hoarded power for decades."