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  • present tense form of shake (3rd person singular).

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"They're the best of us," said Laverty, who won best screenplay at Cannes for Ken Loach's "I, Daniel Blake" and "The Wind that Shakes the Barley".

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

Appeared in the October 3, 2025, print edition as 'FICO Shakes Up Market For Credit Scores'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

Making her own music naturally followed, and the result is the Alabama Shakes frontwoman’s second solo album, the 12-track “What Now,” out Friday.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2024

The curtain raised on the newly titled “Quixote Nuevo“ at Cal Shakes in 2018.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2024

Shakes, sways, and I swear, it’s going to fall...fall, fall, fall over.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes




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