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writhing

[rahy-thing] / ˈraɪ ðɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
twisting
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Across the globe, Florence is wrenching Freddie from writhing on the floor to buck him up for the imminent match.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

The ghost of Gaga past re-emerges for Perfect Celebrity, writhing with camp energy in a shallow grave as she sings about the pressure and torture of stardom.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025

Shohei Ohtani was on the ground, writhing in pain after he was caught stealing second base in the seventh inning.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2024

James Garfield’s assassination in 1881 involved 79 days of writhing medical purgatory.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2024

A single sweep, and a third of it lay, a writhing heap of thorns, in a pile twenty feet away.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien




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