shake
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The reality is, however, she can’t and won’t; at some point, the bell rings and she must put on her coveralls and shake the pail of lip liners in front of us.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
The couple glance at each other and quietly shake their heads.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
That confidence in the school’s outlook began to shake during the pandemic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
I felt like they were never going to get a fair shake at life,” the actor added.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
The last thing Duane saw as he continued to plummet down the steep mountainside was Magic sitting up, giving herself a shake, and then waving cheerfully at Duane without a care in the world.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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Red pepper flakes and everything bagel seasoning cover the remaining territory — heat, funk, nuttiness, crunch — in a few economical shakes.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
When asked if there’s such a thing as too much, she shakes her head with conviction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
She shakes out our hair on the euphoric Good For The Soul, and throws shapes to the filtered grooves of Love Sensation, external.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Protein shakes may soon become easier to enjoy thanks to new research showing that changes in whey protein production can improve both taste and texture.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026
My sister grabs a sneaker and shakes it upside down until a folded postcard tumbles out.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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It had four kilobytes of memory, a black-and-white monitor and used floppy disks that truly flopped when you shook them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
They shook up the format for the second, focusing on homicides, but have returned to a missing persons case.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
The two women whistled and shook a bag of food in the hope of drawing out a cat gone missing for days.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Consumer stocks are a focus for the CIO, a view that hurt performance somewhat in the second quarter when oil price fears shook expectations for Asian consumer behavior.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Her eyes didn’t open, but her limbs no longer shook.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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Nearby, Anastasiia Dudley's house was almost totally destroyed but she and her mother survived – shaken but unharmed.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
A string of aftershocks have shaken the area since the initial quake, further rattling locals in stifling summer temperatures, forecast to hit at least 35C later in the day and a heatstroke warning issued.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
The undertakers were "shaken" and flagged down a passing police car, the court was told.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The report is the culmination of years of rumors and probes that have shaken up Lloyd’s, the world’s biggest insurance marketplace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
An Air Force general blessed with the surname of Power warned a shaken Senate committee that the Russians could render this country defenseless with a missile strike lasting only thirty minutes.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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So the company is shaking up its U.S. leadership, tapping an international veteran to run its domestic market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
"Thirteen people have died," Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said a day after the tremor that registered at the highest level on Japan's Shindo scale of seismic shaking.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
It caused light to moderate shaking at an intensity expected to cause, at most, very light damage, according to the USGS.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
For Joshua, it is about far more than shaking off ring rust.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Old Rupert was shaking his fist in the miller’s face.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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