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shaky

[shey-kee] / ˈʃeɪ ki /




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"GLM-5.2 is free to download, fine-tune, and run on an enterprise's own servers, putting pricing pressure on frontier labs at the same time that access looks shaky," AI analyst Andrew Curran noted.

From Barron's Jul. 9, 2026

This isn’t the first time that an estimate of someone’s wealth has stood atop a shaky pillar, and probably won’t be the last.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Add in expectations of falling inflation, a stronger dollar and policy rates that are still relatively restrictive compared with much of the developed world, and the case for new hikes starts to look shaky.

From MarketWatch Jun. 29, 2026

Days into a shaky ceasefire agreement with the U.S.,

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

“Rowdy,” I whispered, in a shaky voice, “that’s an animal all right, but I’ve never laid eyes on anything that looked like that before, and I don’t like the looks of it.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

But UBS analysts said the company could try to give itself more flexibility for a wider range of outcomes in its financial forecast, due to the the leadership change and a shakier economic backdrop.

From MarketWatch Apr. 5, 2026

Last week’s Treasury auctions were shakier than usual.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 1, 2026

The same could be said of Lesli Margherita’s Mrs. Lovett, the proprietor of a filthy and failing Fleet Street pie shop, but it’s a shakier case.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 3, 2026

But pinning hopes for those gains on retail investors is shakier.

From Barron's Jan. 29, 2026

“How’re you doing, sweetheart?” she asked, her voice faint, her breath even shakier than it had been yesterday.

From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness

"OpenAI's nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations, rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misappropriated trade secrets," the complaint said.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

That is one element of this which the committee is doubtless going to want to probe further, and perhaps where Sir Olly felt on shakiest ground.

From BBC Apr. 21, 2026

Then came a 10-foot stretch in which you had to swing yourself between vertically hanging ropes, with only the shakiest of footing below.

From Seattle Times Sep. 14, 2023

“My brother had the shakiest hand,” she remembered.

From New York Times Feb. 7, 2023

Morgan to buy it by offering a knockdown price and guaranteeing Bear Stearns’s shakiest assets.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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