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adjective

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as in zigzag

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zigzagging

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verb

present participle of zigzag
as in weaving
to move suddenly aside or to and fro the fleeing car zigzagged down the highway at breakneck speed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for zigzagging
  1. weaving
  2. winding
  3. tortuous
  4. sinuous
  5. twisted
  6. serpentine
  7. spiral
Verb
  • Craft is the connective tissue of our history, weaving itself through each iteration and enabling new players to interpret it in novel ways.
    Bill Connolly, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2024
  • But police must notice a primary violation, such as speeding or weaving across lanes, to cite motorists for violating the cellphone law.
    David A. Lieb, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of weaving
Adjective
  • Here weapons ordered into existence decades ago to fight the West were revived for final acts against a new generation of Russian soldiers, sent over the border by the whim of the Kremlin’s latest occupant — a long and winding case of the boomerang effect, aided by Chinese consumer tech.
    C.J. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • These locations give them better visibility but also provide winding advantages.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of winding
Adjective
  • The Broncos were well aware of that tortuous history entering Sunday’s game against the Chiefs and played like it.
    Nick Kosmider, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Maria certainly has elements of this in its depiction of the singer’s tortuous relationship with Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who eventually left her for Jackie Kennedy.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
Definition of tortuous
Adjective
  • The suit featured a double-breasted blazer with sinuous lapels, a pocket square and black buttons on either side of the front placket.
    Julia Teti, WWD, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Patinir’s painterly eye knows well the sinuous gradations that can be drawn from a hot monochrome.
    Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of sinuous
Adjective
  • All three films also suggest that their protagonists find their twisted actions thrilling.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Abbott and Qualley do some of the best work of their already notable careers in a film that’s unpredictable, twisted, and, yes, funny.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of twisted
Adjective
  • The in-store experience will include red shopping bags, which symbolize good luck and prosperity in the new year, which have been redesigned with serpentine shapes in the classic T-monogram.
    Nick Hall, WWD, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The defiance of the second track off Swift’s sixth album vibrates through Burt’s poem, which also picks up the serpentine imagery of the singer’s hard pivot to pop.
    Jennifer Harlan, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of serpentine
Adjective
  • Similar items include a simple wood pedestal side table and spiral metal lamp, both found at antique markets.
    Laura May Todd, Architectural Digest, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Geneva Moore’s therapist pulled out her spiral notebook.
    Maya Miller, ProPublica, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of spiral
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