rattle
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The biggest U.S. automaker has been returning billions to investors even as high interest rates, soaring gas prices and trade wars rattle the global auto industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 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
“These trucks don’t have as much rattle, fumes, exhaust, things of that nature.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Fadi was wondering what she would have done if she had gotten caught, when he heard a key rattle in the front door.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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"It would have been a nice place to sing. Bit like singing in a big church or something. The sound rattles around everywhere."
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
South Korea was set Saturday to send its first trial container through the Arctic, as the Middle East war rattles global shipping, while environmental groups warned the route could accelerate polar ice melt.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Then I remembered that the ceiling fan has one speed at which it rattles faintly but insistently, so I got out of bed, yanked the chain and sent the blades spinning faster.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
A whistle sounds in the distance, and the ground rattles as the train comes into view, plumes of steam billowing out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The store is under the Number 7 train and rattles like a maraca.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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News that the otherwise active pope had a cancerous tumour removed from his lung has rattled the Vatican and the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
“What they’d love us to do is to talk about it the whole day and to be rattled and to have news conferences on it. We are not going to do that.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"As it launched there was this incredible adrenaline and a shockwave that rattled every bone in your body," said the now 70-year-old of the events of 7 December 1972.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
The moves rattled Silicon Valley executives and California educators who see easy access to the smartest, hardest-working people in the world as one of America’s greatest competitive advantages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
I folded Jemma’s letters back into their envelopes and tucked them into my cigar box, but I could not stop my knees from bouncing as we rattled on down the tracks.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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“That Steve Hilton doesn’t see me on Fox News is his problem, not mine. I am gonna talk to voters,” Becerra said, rattling off a list of his recent campaign events.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
CoreWeave’s rising bond yields are rattling AI infrastructure stocks, including GE Vernova, Vertiv and Eaton.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Then you'd hear the packet rattling just as the manager was trying to deliver a team talk - or was about to give a player a dressing down.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
That idea has been rattling around my mind after seeing Zach Cregger’s new “Resident Evil,” itself a reboot made in its creator’s image.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
I find my cereal in the pantry, and there are only like five flakes rattling around.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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