wriggle
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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
"You need to have some wriggle room" for when things go wrong, he added.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025
An unholy specimen, a building creature that is sufficiently weird, necessary, and profitable to wriggle to life in the city’s stifling landscape of land-use regulations: the double duplex.
From Slate • Jul. 31, 2025
Until we wriggle free, all we can do is document.
From Salon • Jul. 20, 2025
All they know for certain is that, as soon as Mr. Wigg had appealed to Mary Poppins, the table below began to wriggle on its legs.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
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