shudder

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

Millions with so-called straight jobs shudder at their steady devaluation in the face of artificial intelligence.

From Salon ● May 4, 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

Liu cast an envious eye toward Trump’s ability to make the world shudder over U.S. tariffs, which he said was the result of dollar-wielding American consumers’ buying power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

Midnight, recalling the journey, gives one last shudder.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

She said she "pats herself on the head every day" for booking the appointment and "shudders to think" what would have happened if she had not.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 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

So, too, is the film’s music, composer Anthony Willis and soundtrack artist Charlie XCX entwining raspy strings with grimy, ominous shudders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

The impact of each footstep shudders through me and I turn the next corner, where there are two guards standing by the doors Nita and the invaders broke.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

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

Kyril Kasimoff shuddered at the thought of the Beverly Crest Blüthner being hauled away like so much debris, as if its elegant frame was just another piece of soddened, shattered wood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

The wall shuddered again, violently this time, cracks jutting out from the main breaks until the entire wall of ice was riddled with fractures.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

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

Stunned captain Alyssa Healy says Australia let themselves down after their reign as one-day world champions was brought to a shuddering halt by hosts India.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

It is some compensation for Jonbon, who finished second, after a shuddering mistake, when odds-on favourite for the Champion Chase at Cheltenham Festival last month.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2025

We did not speak, the six of us, but maintained a gloomy, shuddering silence.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson