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wriggle

verb as in maneuver out of; wiggle

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It had been hard for them to wriggle free of the brokers who covered rich people and to get into the arms of brokers who covered big, stock market–investing institutions.

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He waited for guards to take a dinner break, then crept forward and clipped the first wire, crawled across the death strip, clipped the bottom of the second fence, and wriggled back into East Berlin.

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The last to arrive was Shelly, the sea otter, who wriggled up the muddy riverbank.

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"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.

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Some hostage families fear Netanyahu will still find a way to wriggle out of ending the war.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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