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Recent Examples of twiddle
But having twiddled his thumbs since leaving Manchester United in 2023, there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
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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
Adding women's football to a simulation as complex as Football Manager isn’t as simple as adding team and player names and twiddling with the graphics.
—Barry Collins, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
The kids on the school bus are all twiddling away at their handheld Mattel Electronic Football games and the Health-Ed teacher spends much of the period before lunch inveighing against the dangers of Quaaludes.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 27 Sep. 2024
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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
Adding women's football to a simulation as complex as Football Manager isn’t as simple as adding team and player names and twiddling with the graphics.
—Barry Collins, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
The kids on the school bus are all twiddling away at their handheld Mattel Electronic Football games and the Health-Ed teacher spends much of the period before lunch inveighing against the dangers of Quaaludes.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 27 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twiddle
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The dining room on the floor below has deep red carpets, gold chairs, burl wood walls in a herringbone pattern and reflective metallic paint on the ceiling that intensifies the rotating 360 degree views.—
Laurie Werner,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Powered by the automatic Rolex cal. 3175, its GMT hand was still slaved to the local hour hand, meaning that a second time zone could only be tracked using the rotating bezel.—
Oren Hartov,
Robb Report,
28 Mar. 2025
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Here, guests will find Stardust Racers, a dual-track roller coaster, as well as Constellation Carousel, beautifully lit with animals that spin in different directions.—
Natasha Chen,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2025
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The polar vortex is a gigantic, circular area of cold air high up in the atmosphere that typically spins over the North Pole (as its name suggests).—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2025
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The couple had been browsing for a plate when an employee wheeled out a cart stocked with new arrivals.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
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The 88-year-old then gave the crowd a thumbs up and made the sign of the cross before being wheeled back into his room.—
Rebecca Rosman,
NPR,
23 Mar. 2025
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But the real show came later, when Ne-Yo was spotted on the dance floor twirling tongues with one of his girlfriends and grabbing her derriere.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The vehicle was preparing to plunge out of orbit and back into Earth’s atmosphere, twirling toward a safe splashdown in the ocean — and leaving fuel in its wake.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2025
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Theories about this phenomenon revolve largely around the way that a pitcher trains during the off-season, though experts have yet to come to a consensus.—
Lindsey Adler,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2025
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Jennifer Lopez, for one, revolved her put-together look around a pair of white wide-leg trousers.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
21 Mar. 2025
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Our favorite machines here can turn your barista into a stranger.—
Molly Higgins,
Wired News,
30 Mar. 2025
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Throughout the past decade, pitchers have turned their focus to training techniques that increase their average velocity and the over-all movement of the ball—even at the expense of throwing strikes.—
Lindsey Adler,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2025
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With Orlando trailing by 2 points less than a minute into the fourth quarter at Spectrum Center following a disastrous third, Hornets guard LaMelo Ball looked to swing the ball to Nick Smith Jr. waiting in the corner.—
Jason Beede,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2025
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Still no timetable on anything, but he’s been able to swing the bat and feel like there’s been some steady improvement day after day.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
27 Mar. 2025
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Sony rolled a new trailer of the sequel at CinemaCon, the movie theater trade show that’s currently unfolding at Caesars Palace. Macchio, whose performance in the original film continues to inspire and prove relevant, introduced a few scenes with his next-gen costar Wang.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
1 Apr. 2025
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Over the weekend, SpaceX rolled the Falcon 9 rocket out to the launch pad and performed a launch dress rehearsal with the crew.—
Tariq Malik,
Space.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Twiddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twiddle. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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