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- noun Plural form of
wiggler .
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Examples
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They were called wigglers because they induced an oscillating magnetic field through the charged electrons in the lasing cavity.
The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988
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The wigglers are the food on which some young fishes live.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education
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It had long been known that the breeding-place of mosquitoes was in water; that their eggs when deposited in water floated upon the surface like tiny boats, usually glued together into a raft; that they then turned into larvæ, of which the well-known "wigglers" in the water-butt or the rain-barrel are familiar examples; and that they finally hatched into the complete insect and rose into the air.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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For the most part we stick with the recruits destined to become "wigglers", the institutional slang for low-level examiners of returns.
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Man has been catching all kinds of fish for centuries with line and cane poles and a few wigglers.
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Perhaps the novel's most emblematic stylistic moment is a section, cast in a form borrowed from double-entry bookkeeping, describing the actions of a group of wigglers as they sit at their desks reviewing forms:This passage, which goes on more or less without a break for three full pages, marks the limits of Wallace's attempts to adapt his prose to the rhythms of the world he is describing.
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Man has been catching all kinds of fish for centuries with line and cane poles and a few wigglers.
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Pretty talented wigglers if you ask me. single mom
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But for the most part Foster Wallace sticks to the practicalities of the work that the wigglers and their bosses perform.
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Female wigglers almost always have something furry attached at the neck or the hood.
The Whole Ski Kit and Kaboodle Tina Gaudoin 2010
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