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Recent Examples of shimmy
In the end, those bonus points went to Whitney Leavitt and Mark Ballas, who shimmied to a score for the night of 37/40.
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Lars Brandle, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2025
That’s when Rannells slips on a clown mask and starts to shimmy.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Things that may shimmy and shake, but things nonetheless, not ideological assertions.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Grab an espresso martini and get ready to shimmy the night away.
—Rana Good, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shimmy
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But after the show’s debut, fans clambered for more.—
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As men clambered into the world-famous museum, nobody was actively monitoring that specific feed, legislators were told.—
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Fanning out like urban guerrillas through Paris’ darkened streets well after midnight, the anti-waste activists shinny up walls and drain pipes, reaching for switches to turn off the lights. Click.—
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The slippery custom began a half-century ago merely as a means to dissuade drunken daredevils from attempting to shinny up the poles in order to mingle with paying guests.—
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Oddsmakers have Friday night’s total at 67.5 points, which sounds like more than enough to boogie down.—
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Summer is winding down in North Texas, but there’s still plenty of fun activities around the area for those looking to boogie over the weekend.—
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Alternatively, continue holding boat pose with your knees bent and shins parallel to the ground (rather than straightening your legs until your body is in a V-shape).—
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During every chemotherapy cycle, 30 minutes before the medication is administered, the wraps are placed on the patient’s forearms and shins to begin the cooling process.—
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The K-pop boy band Cortis arrived with an entourage of handlers and bopped around to their own music; the trance DJ Armin van Buuren got stony-serious on the topic of his new, piano-only album.—
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Christiani Pitts and Sam Tutty bring crackling wit and easy chemistry to a mismatched pair bopping between boroughs.—
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In the fall, the workers trade in their pruning shears for knives sharp enough to skin a deer in minutes.—
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All of them knew how to skin a deer.—
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For five years, the group from Mexico's National Autonomous University has climbed the volcano with pounds of equipment, risked data loss due to bad weather or a volcanic explosion and used artificial intelligence to analyze the seismic data.—
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But as prices have climbed in recent days, locals have increasingly stayed away from the market stalls, reducing the chaos to a relative hush.—
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From beating the mighty Oklahoma Sooners in overtime in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl to waltzing deep into SEC country and defeating the Georgia Bulldogs in the Georgia Dome, the Broncos rarely shied away from a challenge.—
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Playing against a Bulls defense ranked near the bottom of the league in most defensive categories, the Warriors waltzed into open jump shots and layups for most of the night.—
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“Shimmy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shimmy. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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