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After the memorial service, El-Sayed lingered for a bit to shake the hands of people in attendance.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

In the middle, it can be hard to shake the Dwight Schrute-esque caricature of a manager who was shunted into some do-nothing role where he can’t cause too much damage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The second investor is much harder to shake out with one rate increase.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

But surely, the sequel will shake things up.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

He’d pulled off his driving gloves to shake hands with Dad.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

He shakes our hands, guides us toward Baker Library.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

“Sometimes you just kind of have to power through the clamminess and the shakes and the racing heart,” said Matt Schulz, the chief consumer-finance analyst at LendingTree, who wrote a book on the topic.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

But thrust “Transamerica” 21 years into the future, and watch as it shakes off “outdated” and “problematic” from either side of Bree’s pristine lavender shoulder pads.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

He holds up his “Treasure Island” Ridleygrams and shakes them at the camera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

He shakes his head, like he can’t believe he has to explain it to me again.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

U.S. stocks rose as investors shook off the jitters that followed the Federal Reserve’s first rate hike in three years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Her hands shook as she punched the buttons into the safe’s keypad, entering the wrong combination.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

In the process, private-label brands shook off their reputation as cheap copycats.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

Similarly, the Metro describes a "day of terror that shook the world".

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

He shook himself, stretched, then came towards me.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Then in June, he was shaken when Clear Spring and Delaware Life disclosed that they had billions more than previously disclosed in affiliated assets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

The killing of Kirk has shaken Shinkle, whose family in Alabama always told him how much safer Utah would be than his home state.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

It gave me somewhere to put my attention that was not the news, and it gave a shaken city a place to stand together and roar about something that would not break its heart.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

And the offense won’t be at its best until he has shaken his slump — Ohtani has just two hits in his last six games after hitting just .241 in August.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

I sat there alone on my bench like a bottle of ginger ale that had been shaken up—so many notions were bubbling in my head, I thought I might explode.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

"The windows partially shattered, the stones from the track came into the carriage. It was really shocking. I'm still shaking."

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

As the waves bashed the coast this week, boulders smashed into the piles of Mitchell Leib’s Malibu home, plucking them like a “guitar string” and shaking his house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

During an earthquake, people should first protect themselves from the shaking, then move to safety as soon as they can.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

Both factory orders and industrial production rose in the second quarter, shaking off fears of a slowdown as disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz sent energy prices soaring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The walk took only a minute, but by the time we got inside the double doors of the police station, I was shaking with cold.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom