quiver
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She conjures a bewitching onscreen presence that many of her contemporaries could only dream of, pulling the viewer’s gaze with a single glare from her steely eyes or the quiver of her chin.
From Salon β Aug. 17, 2026
In the meantime, locals like Ogata and Yui* are having to pick up the pieces and try to restore some kind of normality – even as the shockwaves, both geological and psychological, continue to quiver.
From BBC β Jul. 29, 2026
As Pierce sees it, a 10% cap is “one of the few arrows left in the quiver for the White House really struggling to address the affordability crisis.”
From MarketWatch β Mar. 19, 2026
What is it about a title like “Neighbors” that sends a little quiver up one’s spine?
From The Wall Street Journal β Feb. 12, 2026
And one of them was Otwel Borwan, carrying his bow, with a quiver of arrows at the ready.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
His lower lip quivers; there’s an expression on his face that my husband and I used to call “sad baby.”
From Slate β May 10, 2026
With calculations based on linear algebra, the research team demonstrated that -- analogous to radioactivity in atomic nuclei -- a magnetic quiver can decay into a more stable state or fission into two separate quivers.
From Science Daily β Jun. 3, 2024
Mr McKeown, who is 37, was taken to Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, where they discovered he had suffered a ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest, which is when the heart quivers instead of pumping normally.
From BBC β Dec. 23, 2023
She played a new single, “Alone,” that had some jazzy, jagged percussion and Björk-worthy vocal quivers, showing she’s getting only more ambitious with time.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 13, 2023
But my teeth stick to my lip and my whole mouth quivers.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
On the verge of tears, his voice quivered and broke.
From BBC β Aug. 28, 2026
His lips quivered as he held back tears.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 9, 2026
While the video played, Doncic’s lip quivered as tears pooled in the corners of his eyes, his emotion at its most visible.
From Los Angeles Times β Apr. 9, 2025
The only place that grass grew in designer Jonathan Anderson’s fashion dystopia was literally out of shoes, where green blades quivered and flapped surreally as the automatons filed by.
From Seattle Times β Jun. 25, 2022
Skardebek quivered next to Werfel’s head, as if she could tell something was wrong.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
Big eyes quivering, he is so excited to share a new update.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 11, 2026
Be fretful, be anxious, be a quivering wreck about what might be in America, but keep perspective, too.
From BBC β Mar. 31, 2026
A companion next to her fought back tears, her chin quivering.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 25, 2026
Hegseth’s brief tenure at the Pentagon has been dominated by his quivering inability to deal with any kind of challenge or discomfort.
From Salon β Dec. 3, 2025
I shrugged like it was no big deal but my quivering chin must’ve given me away.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
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