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The overall sound is highly dramatic, with massed voices, quaking beats, horses whinnying in the distance, and percussion that evokes the threat of a rattlesnake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

I doubt the Kremlin will be quaking in its clogs over such an answer.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 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

The boys turned and ran for home, and the cloud boomed at their backs and the lightning shattered the air into quaking pieces.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck


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