waggle
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Every day, new people came, some people left, but the constant was Syd, his presence, his waggle, his ability to give unexpected joy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2025
He added: "He had a super swing - a no-nonsense swing. One waggle and away it went."
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2025
However, until now, it was unclear how the bees gathered around a waggle dancer make sense of the information.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024
Insects are known to be capable of social learning in the wild: the best-known example is the so-called waggle dance used by honeybees to communicate the location and quality of flowers.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 7, 2023
Pilots Tonya Skoblikova and Katya Fedotova were able to waggle their wings in farewell as they flew off to find emergency landing places.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
But he says the new research reveals more about the structure of a species’ communication system, much as scientists deciphered how the waggles of honey bees tell other bees where flowers are located.
From Science Magazine ● May 7, 2024
The researchers observed that bees alter the position of their antennae, which are touched repeatedly by the dancer as it waggles by, based on the angle of their body relative to the dancer.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024
“His tongue waggles, he talks fast. Smooth talker is how I’m going to explain it.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
It's a fiercely hot afternoon in Milton Keynes and I'm chasing a small orange flag as it waggles just above a line of low garden walls.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2022
She tilts her head back and waggles her fingers like she’s picking up signals from the sky.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
Millions of people watched the awards shows where Williams waggled his hips at Tom Jones, or challenged Oasis’ Liam Gallagher to a fist fight — moments that have been absorbed into pop culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
These they waggled at me in person one morning after rainstorms flooded the subways of Manhattan, in an enormous penthouse apartment with views of the Hudson River — and, Dixie noted, dramatic lightning strikes.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2021
Brown waggled his head: he’d think about it.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019
When I met Caleb at his place, I held up my hands and waggled my fingers.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2019
Finally 1 waggled my fingers at the rat and mouthed the words “Hi, Cinnamon,” although they couldn’t hear me on the other side of the glass.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
Anyway, a discussion about the weather sparked Mr. Biden’s memory of an old movie, unspooling in his waggling mind.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
After a few tries, he appeared to grow weary of following its rules, and just started waggling the mouse up and down rapidly to create a barrage of noise.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
“It was just, like, theater kids,” she says, demonstrating the type by waggling her jazz hands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
Fast players had already hit the ball, but others were still waggling.
From Golf Digest ● Jan. 17, 2020
“When Diogenes the Cynic heard, in a debate, that there was no such thing as change nor motion, he refuted the charge by walking about the stage during his opponent’s speech, waggling his legs.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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