shudder
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An omen among omens: Mid-dog-walk that day, I spot a onesie that reads “Milk Drunk” and shudder at the impulse to recruit our newborns into low-key bacchanalia.
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
A 1970s-style outcome, or anything close to it, would have been enough to make anyone shudder — but especially retirees and others living on fixed or semi-fixed incomes.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026
These revelations bring a shudder, naturally, but also complicate, or rather radically change, our interpretation of Laius’ death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
My face would scrunch up and I’d shudder from the intense flavors, but I never cried.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2025
I try to control the shudder building up under my skin.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
The remarks sent shudders through chipmakers particularly, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index tumbling 5.9 percent -- its biggest drop in more than two months, according to Bloomberg.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Dame Uta shudders when I mention the idea: "Agh! Such a vague notion."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026
The shadow of her father shudders and vanishes.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Our Waymo shuddered to a stop, and we jumped out in the middle of the street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Despite all the times I shuddered at the trailer tagline, “Believe in the Hail Mary,” over the last year, I really do.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
"Now I'm afraid of the river," he shuddered.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
Planners shuddered, while architects looked away, even as they accepted handsome commissions to build some of L.A.’s — if not the world’s — most iconic buildings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
He shuddered at the thought that his father could be arrested also.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
In 2008, the shuddering global economy and soaring fuel prices helped push several airlines into bankruptcy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
“They think we’re these evil business owners,” she said, shuddering.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
England's 12-game winning run came to a shuddering halt with a 31-20 defeat by Scotland in Edinburgh last weekend.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
“In the beginning, ‘friends’ is almost a nasty word for her,” says Yeoh, shuddering at the thought of nice Prime denizens trying to befriend the emperor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025
Pinmei tried to picture Lady Meng, refined and graceful, among the horrors of the Vast Wall and found herself shuddering.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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