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  • present participle of quiver.
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quivering

[kwiv-uh-ring] / ˈkwɪv ə rɪŋ /


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In the years since her "quivering days" she co-founded and maintained the blog "No Longer Quivering," a resource for women like her who plan on leaving the movement.

From Salon • May 11, 2021

Quivering and hesitant, like a spoon-wielding toddler trying to eat soup without spilling it, the world’s first fruit-picking robot is attempting to harvest a raspberry.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2019

Quivering with fear and rage in the title role, the soprano Brenda Rae acts and sounds girlish but somber, innocent but wounded.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2018

During a March U.S. tour that stopped at Georgetown University, Serbia’s DAH Teatar performed “The Quivering of the Rose,” a play about losing loved ones to ethnic and political conflict.

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2015

Quivering with the uncertainty of pioneers, dreading that they might have been led astray by some minuscule miscalculation, they wrote a short note for publication and hastened to Lawrence’s house for his approval.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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