quiver
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She conjures a bewitching onscreen presence that many of her contemporaries could only dream of, pulling the viewer’s gaze with a single glare from her steely eyes or the quiver of her chin.
From Salon â Aug. 17, 2026
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
I stared up at the sun until it began to quiver before my eyes.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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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
Iang's face quivers as she recounts the story of what happened on 26 November in K-Haimual, her village in Myanmar's western Chin State, and then she breaks down.
From BBC â Dec. 21, 2025
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
She played a new single, “Alone,” that had some jazzy, jagged percussion and Björk-worthy vocal quivers, showing she’s getting only more ambitious with time.
From Los Angeles Times â Nov. 13, 2023
"I'm sorry about your mother. My commander had promised me she wouldn't hurt any civilians, and she went back on her word. I ..." Her voice quivers.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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On the verge of tears, his voice quivered and broke.
From BBC â Aug. 28, 2026
His lips quivered as he held back tears.
From The Wall Street Journal â Jul. 9, 2026
While the video played, Doncic’s lip quivered as tears pooled in the corners of his eyes, his emotion at its most visible.
From Los Angeles Times â Apr. 9, 2025
The only place that grass grew in designer Jonathan Anderson’s fashion dystopia was literally out of shoes, where green blades quivered and flapped surreally as the automatons filed by.
From Seattle Times â Jun. 25, 2022
Leen’s lip quivered; her head whipped between Wiki and the woods.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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Johnston plays poor Bear as a quivering mess wracked with guilt that this monster — who used to be his friend — is the result of his own terrible decision-making.
From Los Angeles Times â May 15, 2026
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
"Cathy and Heathcliff's passions vibrate through their dress, their surroundings, and everything else within reach, and you leave the cinema quivering on their own private frequency."
From BBC â Feb. 10, 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
By the time I reached the other building, my legs were quivering so violently, I had to grasp hold of the ledge to steady myself.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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