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The bill’s backers are hopeful it will wriggle through this legislative session and land on the governor’s desk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

"I would see a child try to wriggle away or stand up and walk off, but he'd say, 'sit here and we're going to read a book'."

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

"I was holding onto his ankle, making sure that he couldn't move his leg, his left leg," Isaac explained, adding that this was so he couldn't "wriggle away".

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

The rules allowed some wriggle room for Japan to ship weapons and components to key partners under joint-development programs deemed critical to Japan’s security, such as ballistic missile defense systems developed with the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

As Dallas climbed the steps, he saw Florida standing beside Mr. Trepid, trying to wriggle out of his grasp.

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech

It wriggles back into the streets aiming for friends, tunes, food.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Ulster break forward with a darting run from Stuart McCloskey, who gives it out to Rob Baloucoune and runs into trouble as he wriggles his way inside as Clermont survive a scare.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2024

When a nematode wriggles around a petri dish, what’s going on inside a tiny roundworm’s even tinier brain?

From Scientific American ● Aug. 21, 2023

He loves bananas and his large, porcine nose wriggles with contentment as he bites into one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2022

He shuts down the saw and wriggles through the raw hole, up the ladder behind it, and into the garret.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

A child wriggled screaming out of her father's arms, just after the pope said "Peace be upon you" and the avenue fell silent.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Having gazed at it onscreen dozens of times, including in the hyper-crisp 16K resolution of the Sphere, this in-person viewing was the first time I realized how Bert Lahr wriggled it on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Forty years ago in February, Jackson wriggled free of her father Joe Jackson’s stifling management with the release of “Control.”

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2026

She said she slipped his grip, wriggled free and got away.”

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025

Alex hugged him tight, but Rex squirmed and wriggled free, took a step back, and dropped something at Alex’s feet.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers

“Before you know it, white worms are wriggling and swarming in every garbage bag and along the walls and floors and underlids of every trash can.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

"I have two very small children so things can get very stressful at home," says Stella while holding on tight to a wriggling baby Evie.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025

When he got there, everything was fine, except that her baby, he discovered, was one of two wriggling black mounds covered by swarms of black flies, which were "devouring the remnants of the placental membranes."

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2025

A snapshot of wriggling toad tadpoles has earned Shane Gross the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024

But there it is, wriggling for its freedom.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti