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wobble

[wob-uhl] / ˈwɒb əl /


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Over time, the disk spirals inward, causing the wobble to speed up.

From Science Daily Jul. 6, 2026

Remember when we all believed that the market would be in dire straits if the megacap tech stocks had a wobble?

From MarketWatch Jun. 26, 2026

Repetitive as his jokes get, he’s terrific when his battery runs low, forcing him to wobble hungover-like through a kitchen before plopping face-first in a dog bowl.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

Chip stocks suffered a wobble, and investors had better hope that’s all it is.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

I spun the wheel and was surprised it didn’t wobble or creak.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

When the national mood wobbles, we turn to the arts, which have the power to free buried desires, soothe souls and cross divides.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

Those will mark a reset of Wall Street hedging, and resulting orders hitting markets could cause sharp if short-term market wobbles, he said.

From MarketWatch Jun. 18, 2026

Blindsides are mainstays in films like this, just as in life, and tend to be followed by emotional fractures or wobbles of faith.

From Salon Jun. 7, 2026

As generations of Russian children know, the roly-poly 'nevalyashka' wobbles a lot, but never falls down.

From BBC Jun. 7, 2026

Ren wobbles on his board and spins out of control as he tries to avoid the wolf’s gaping mouth.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

This match looked like a romp for Noskova until going sideways in the second set, when the 21-year-old Czech wobbled and surrendered five championship points.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Webster-Longin also wobbled on her dismount and her 9.5875 had to count.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 16, 2026

Oil prices wobbled on Friday ahead of talks between the U.S. and Iran due to take place over the weekend loom.

From MarketWatch Apr. 10, 2026

England's line-out wobbled badly against the Irish, however, and hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie, another to be withdrawn before the interval, pays the price with Jamie George coming back into the starting line-up.

From BBC Mar. 3, 2026

I took one look at her mouth closed tight as she stared down at her phone, and my stomach wobbled.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence

If a wobbling stock market were to threaten companies like OpenAI, Wallerstein said he believes the federal government could ride to the rescue.

From MarketWatch Jul. 11, 2026

There were these moments when he was really wobbling.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

Instead of rotating around a single axis like most asteroids and planets, Donaldjohanson behaves more like a wobbling spinning top.

From Science Daily Jun. 25, 2026

Trucks wobbling under piles of amber-colored globules would make the twice-daily trek from Al-Nahud, a town 120 miles west of Obeid and an agricultural hub for the most prized variety of gum arabic, Hashab.

From Los Angeles Times May 31, 2026

Cade stood up, wobbling like a tightrope walker in a hurricane.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith




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