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shake

[sheyk] / ʃeɪk /




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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

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

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

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

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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