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
Rather, she’s snared Millie in a trap while desperately trying to wriggle free from one herself.
From Salon • Jan. 31, 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
A wriggle of the arms, a lifting first of the right foot, then the left: the zippicamiknicks were lying lifeless and as though deflated on the floor.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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