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quake

[kweyk] / kweɪk /




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For anyone who cares about video games as art and has bemoaned the ever-tightening corporate stranglehold over visual entertainment and its archives, Sony’s disc phaseout is an earth-shattering quake that’s not to be taken lightly.

From Slate Jul. 7, 2026

A tearful Venezuelan woman alleged on X.com that authorities demanded $450 from her family for the body of a loved one killed in the quake.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

Venezuelan parliamentary president Jorge Rodriguez said Tuesday that 6,461 people had been rescued since the quake struck.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

The rescue comes well after the initial three-day period immediately after the quake during which experts say people trapped under debris have the best chance of being found alive.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

A million thoughts swim through my head, making tremors quake up and down my spine.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

The opposition statement was more detailed and expressly referred to the support the United States has lent since the quakes, which it said showed that "Venezuela is not alone".

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

Venezuelan medical students, doctors and veterinarians are offering primary care out of a McDonald’s that was among the few buildings left intact after the quakes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

After hearing about the quakes, they met in Miami, collecting first aid kits and rescue equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

As of Sunday, 3,342 people were confirmed to have died in the quakes, with tens of thousands still missing.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

New buildings in Japan are designed to rock and flex rather than break, helping them weather strong quakes.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

He was so influential that two presidents, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, quaked under fear of incurring McCarthy's wrath.

From Salon Oct. 6, 2024

But on board, the 12-year-old girl quaked with fear.

From Seattle Times May 7, 2024

He has never been to Kyle Field, which does quake even if it quaked less last Saturday.

From Washington Post Sep. 16, 2022

The car screamed, quaked, stopped and smoked yet somehow started again.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 18, 2022

But it was just the two of us, me smiling brazenly while inside I quaked in terror, and him, flustered beyond comprehension.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

But while Wembanyama is having the time of his life, every other team in the league is quaking in its boots.

From The Wall Street Journal May 25, 2026

Manchester City prevailed in a nine-goal feast at Fulham thanks to the sort of attacking display that would normally have title rivals quaking in their boots.

From BBC Dec. 2, 2025

Troubles, however, are also quaking on the offensive side of America’s nuclear-weapons enterprise—specifically, the program to build a new land-based intercontinental ballistic missile, the Sentinel, to replace the 400 current ICBMs, known as Minuteman IIIs.

From Slate Sep. 16, 2025

He sounded quite irritated that they were asking him about such trivialities when he is the one who has world leaders quaking in their boots as he re-makes the whole world in his image.

From Salon Feb. 19, 2025

Chess watched carefully to see if her shoulders started quaking.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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