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Recent Examples of twiddleThe elites got out of positions quickly, while retail investors were left twiddling their thumbs and absorbing brutal losses.—Trent Hoerr, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025 Elsewhere in the hemisphere, democratic countries have regressed to a more familiar undemocratic norm in the caudillo, or the strongman leader with autocratic tendencies, as other relatively healthy democracies have twiddled their thumbs.—Ryan C. Berg, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2021 But having twiddled his thumbs since leaving Manchester United in 2023, there’s light at the end of the tunnel.—Phil Hay, The Athletic, 23 July 2024 Time is of the essence, though, so don’t just sit back on your couch twiddling your thumbs.—Kyle Thomas, People.com, 27 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for twiddle
The break-up between Elon Musk and Donald Trump is the battle that everyone saw coming, spinning into a tweetstorm of insults, unwanted revelations and surprising outbursts.
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Chris Westfall,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
Alas, Bill never calls, and though Jenny spins it as the part of the rom-com where there’s a mix-up before true love prevails, that’s clearly not the case.
Officer Chowdhury Nafees was in a wheelchair when he was greeted by more than 200 NYPD officers, who clapped and cheered as he was wheeled out of Jacobi Medical Center.
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Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
28 May 2025
Rather than crying, the resilient bride smiled and waved at everyone as she was wheeled out of the party on a gurney, where guests gave her a grand exit at the back of the building with wedding sparklers.
Cars speed past honking their horns, some twirling PSG flags and scarves from their windows, while youngsters in small groups nimbly dart and weave their way through the crowds on bicycles.
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Tom Williams,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
Movies have long cherished the contrast between a ballerina’s delicacy and lithe visuals with the gritty determination required to leap, dance and twirl in the highly unnatural way that is dancing on your toes.
The best way to pay off debt The best move for those struggling to pay down revolving credit card debt is to consolidate with a 0% balance transfer card, experts suggest.
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Jessica Dickler,
CNBC,
2 Apr. 2025
The filing also details various financial agreements, including a revolving credit agreement entered on May 1, 2024, with a maturity date of May 1, 2029.
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Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
7 Mar. 2025
The first of these books predates the first Slow Horses novel by a few years — many of them have already been turned into films in Denmark — but the themes and tone are similar enough to appeal to anyone who’s fallen for Gary Oldman and company on the Apple spy series.
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Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
29 May 2025
There’s also this: Auston Matthews has only three years remaining on his contract and will turn 28 later this fall.
The president's team has now swung the pendulum in the opposite direction from five years ago, even attempting to rescind findings of constitutional violations in the cities where Floyd and Taylor lost their lives.
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Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
27 May 2025
The momentum swung again on the next hole when Griffin saved par from behind a tree in the fairway and Schmid curiously aimed away from the hole with his ball plugged in a bunker, ended up in the rough and made bogey.
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