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squiggly

[skwig-lee] / ˈskwɪg li /


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Released on Friday, it's packed full of off-kilter lyrics and squiggly synth lines that burrow into your brain.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2025

The big skirt could have been a flat, dull “black hole” gobbling up half the painting, but Velázquez magically transformed it into tactile velvet with several soft, squiggly yet relaxed marks of light gray paint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024

Mr. Fiddler was a versatile keyboardist, equally adept at playing warm Fender Rhodes grooves or squiggly synthesizer arpeggios, skills honed during his decade with P-Funk, from 1986 to 1996.

From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2023

The less evenly distributed the squiggly proteins are, the curlier the hair.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023

Its head is attached to a boxy torso, with squiggly open arms.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

Now it looked squigglier but still, thought Aru, like the number two.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

Among professional athletes, the trajectories of golfers’ careers are marked by the squiggliest lines, silly string squirted out of a can.

From Washington Post ● May 5, 2022


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