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By integrating the advantages of them, in this paper, we develop the normal wiggly hesitant fuzzy power GMSM (NWHFPGMSM) operator and its weighted form based on the distance measure of two normal wiggly hesitant fuzzy elements, then we further discuss their properties and some special cases. Thus, a new multi-attribute decision making method based on the NWHFPGMSM operator under normal wiggly hesitant fuzzy environment is proposed. 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