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There had been foreshocks, smaller earthquakes that shook the countryside for days before the main event, but there’s nothing unusual about earthquakes in Japan.

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Yesterday, he pulled me aside & when he shook my hand, he slipped an American five dollar bill into it.

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Around her, dancers of all ages shook their hips to Arabic music, shimmying barefoot as a woman with a neck tattoo played the derbake, a traditional drum.

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The accident shook him mentally and physically but he began to pick up the pieces this year.

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DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that shook global markets earlier this year, may only have been the beginning.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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