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rattle

[rat-l] / ˈræt l /




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Lawyers say class-action cases are routine and don’t rattle large fund managers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Tanden can reflexively rattle off the particularities of housing protocols I couldn’t begin to decode; she titters with satisfaction upon recounting the intricacies of a long-discarded Australian cap-and-trade proposal.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

And as a film, it’s a masterpiece that will rattle around your head for days, constantly sparking more affection — and the occasional nightmare.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

"You felt the office rattle and you heard the loud noise."

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

The cavern we’re in shakes—not enough to cause any destruction, but enough to rattle some teeth.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

On the other hand, Casa Vega owner Christy Vega rattles off a long list of complaints when discussing Raman and her office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

Ms. Tafoya rattles off federal programs that can lend assistance to local police and strengthen their recruitment and training efforts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

It rattles against the hard edges of your brain until it gets polished and smooth.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

"So, when someone rattles you, knocks you off your game, breaks your focus, you find yourself interrupted, paused, with changing disrupting rhythms."

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Both of them always dropping their rattles or rubber pacifiers and tangling themselves in blankets, why so tortured, little angels?

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Margaret confronts the principal and tells him that Carrie was rattled by the drill and that the whole exercise is traumatizing to students.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Binance has vowed to get the exchange back up within a couple of days after a record $6.3 billion heist, which has rattled the industry and investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

A cameraman proclaimed “¡Muy bien!” when Raman rattled off an “uno, dos, tres” mic check.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Analysts speculated that the haphazard way that the Phase 3 results came out may have rattled investors.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

Now keys rattled outside my own: a very young guard in a very new uniform bounded in.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

"Sometimes at night my baby's chest makes a rattling sound," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

CoreWeave’s rising bond yields are rattling AI infrastructure stocks, including GE Vernova, Vertiv and Eaton.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

We’re witnessing the power of pure art, even as Rock cleverly waters down the moment with the sound of an unseen bartender rattling a martini shaker in the background.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Early lines have the Clippers as a deep long shot to win the title, their odds rattling around the ocean floor with the Pelicans, Grizzlies and Kings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Bottom: A peccary can be ferocious when threatened and makes a rattling sound by chattering its teeth to scare off predators.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple


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