shaky
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The Los Angeles Dodgers stormed to the World Series last season with a bullpen that could generously be described as shaky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
He started the first game, had some shaky moments and dropped out for the next couple.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
While April-June was one of the best quarters for equities for some time, the new quarter has got off to a shaky start, with Seoul taking the brunt of the selling.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
This isn’t the first time that an estimate of someone’s wealth has stood atop a shaky pillar, and probably won’t be the last.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
At this supreme moment, the people cheered the man who, after a shaky start in office, learned how to command armies, brought down slavery, and become a most eloquent and moving speaker.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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Nigeria's GDP is the fourth largest in Africa, but after years of mismanagement and corruption, its grid is often shakier than that of neighbouring, poorer countries.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
But he said they are shakier than in 2008.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
But UBS analysts said the company could try to give itself more flexibility for a wider range of outcomes in its financial forecast, due to the the leadership change and a shakier economic backdrop.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 5, 2026
The same could be said of Lesli Margherita’s Mrs. Lovett, the proprietor of a filthy and failing Fleet Street pie shop, but it’s a shakier case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
Instead of going back the long way, I hop on a much shakier, nonglass elevator, which I discovered two days ago.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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“OpenAI’s nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations,” Apple’s complaint said, accusing the AI lab of “a pattern of theft.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
"OpenAI's nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations, rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misappropriated trade secrets," the complaint said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
That is one element of this which the committee is doubtless going to want to probe further, and perhaps where Sir Olly felt on shakiest ground.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
Then came a 10-foot stretch in which you had to swing yourself between vertically hanging ropes, with only the shakiest of footing below.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
Morgan to buy it by offering a knockdown price and guaranteeing Bear Stearns’s shakiest assets.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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