quiver
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In the meantime, locals like Ogata and Yui* are having to pick up the pieces and try to restore some kind of normality – even as the shockwaves, both geological and psychological, continue to quiver.
From BBC â Jul. 29, 2026
As Pierce sees it, a 10% cap is “one of the few arrows left in the quiver for the White House really struggling to address the affordability crisis.”
From MarketWatch â Mar. 19, 2026
What is it about a title like “Neighbors” that sends a little quiver up one’s spine?
From The Wall Street Journal â Feb. 12, 2026
The heart rate elevates, muscles quiver, the skin can feel hot and prickly because of increased blood flow.
From Los Angeles Times â Jan. 1, 2026
Nathan said, forcing his voice not to quiver.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
His lower lip quivers; there’s an expression on his face that my husband and I used to call “sad baby.”
From Slate â May 10, 2026
On a recent evening, Karuk men and boys gathered by the Klamath wearing traditional regalia and holding spears, bows and quivers made of animal skins and filled with willow branches.
From Los Angeles Times â Aug. 28, 2024
With calculations based on linear algebra, the research team demonstrated that -- analogous to radioactivity in atomic nuclei -- a magnetic quiver can decay into a more stable state or fission into two separate quivers.
From Science Daily â Jun. 3, 2024
Mr McKeown, who is 37, was taken to Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, where they discovered he had suffered a ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest, which is when the heart quivers instead of pumping normally.
From BBC â Dec. 23, 2023
My father’s mustache quivers as he bangs his hand on the end table.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
His lips quivered as he held back tears.
From The Wall Street Journal â Jul. 9, 2026
“How do you expect a community to recover and heal and move forward when the people who make Lahaina, Lahaina, aren’t even there anymore?” she said at a recent news conference as her voice quivered.
From Seattle Times â Apr. 20, 2024
“I quivered at the end of every year when we learned what the budget was,” Waters said.
From New York Times â Apr. 1, 2024
Time itself quivered with the sound, that terrible, haunting chirping, adversely impacting our mental health forever.
From Salon â Feb. 9, 2024
The gun quivered in his hand ever so slightly.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Through evocative descriptions—the skylark’s trill “hovering in the quivering air,” or the sun rising over a “silvery, dew-thick cow meadow”—Ms. Haynes invites us to take part in the daily rhythms of our natural world.
From The Wall Street Journal â Apr. 17, 2026
A companion next to her fought back tears, her chin quivering.
From Los Angeles Times â Mar. 25, 2026
Marius Borg Høiby, 29, looked overwhelmed by the occasion, his voice quivering as he paused several times to take off his glasses and wipe his eyes.
From BBC â Feb. 4, 2026
“Homeland” co-developer Howard Gordon serves as this show’s showrunner, and he’s amply familiar with Danes’ preternatural ability to break out an anxiety-squinched expression and quivering lower lip precisely when the action calls for them.
From Salon â Nov. 19, 2025
I shrugged like it was no big deal but my quivering chin must’ve given me away.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
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