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After the memorial service, El-Sayed lingered for a bit to shake the hands of people in attendance.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
In the middle, it can be hard to shake the Dwight Schrute-esque caricature of a manager who was shunted into some do-nothing role where he can’t cause too much damage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The second investor is much harder to shake out with one rate increase.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
But surely, the sequel will shake things up.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
I tried to gently shake her off, but she only fluttered her wings and continued her search.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
It’s going to be an interesting time to see how that shakes itself out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The new research paper shows there’s more time before that debate shakes out, said Adam Blandin, an economist at Vanderbilt University and one of the co-authors.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
I do, though, hope he shakes things up and doesn't just stick with guys that have proven they can't take us up to the next level.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
However the legal situation shakes out, betting on elections is happening.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
Theo shakes his head, as if clearing water from his ear.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Her hands shook as she punched the buttons into the safe’s keypad, entering the wrong combination.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
You live in a diesel snow globe, and somebody just shook it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
All the reshuffling is enough to leave an onlooker shook — or, in the case of the New Orleans Saints, Shough.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The U.S. added 162,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department reported Friday, a much-stronger-than-expected result that suggested the labor market shook off its early-summer doldrums.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
He shook the dogs out of the snow and made them stand in the wind and twice looked at me and smiled.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
Well, it's not exactly Mariah Carey demanding baskets of puppies and forbidding eye contact, but Imbruglia was shaken up.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
And the offense won’t be at its best until he has shaken his slump — Ohtani has just two hits in his last six games after hitting just .241 in August.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
The debate has already shaken investors in the state’s two largest investor-owned utilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
In tears, Marlene Nino said she felt shaken and powerless in the face of her sister's sudden death.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Emma’s very good opinion of Frank Churchill was a little shaken the following day, by hearing that he was gone off to London, merely to have his hair cut.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
The products of similar training programs, both men were Persian speakers adept at shaking off Iranian surveillance teams in the labyrinth of Tehran’s backstreets and alleyways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
"The windows partially shattered, the stones from the track came into the carriage. It was really shocking. I'm still shaking."
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
As the waves bashed the coast this week, boulders smashed into the piles of Mitchell Leib’s Malibu home, plucking them like a “guitar string” and shaking his house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
During an earthquake, people should first protect themselves from the shaking, then move to safety as soon as they can.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
He was white as the moon and shaking so hard it was as if some outside force were throttling him.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
