quiver
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That wrist is how Alcaraz sculpts that spectacular drop shot that makes opponents quiver at the knees and would make Harry Hopman cry.
From The Wall Street Journal â Aug. 6, 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 â Mar. 19, 2026
The Cidara acquisition adds another medicine to the Merck quiver.
From Barron's â Nov. 14, 2025
With a few deft strokes of his pen, he could convey the quiver of self-doubt, the swagger of chauvinism, the crush of depression.
From Los Angeles Times â Jan. 21, 2025
Her quiver and how she carried in the other hand, high above her head.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
His lower lip quivers; there’s an expression on his face that my husband and I used to call “sad baby.”
From Slate â May 10, 2026
Iang's face quivers as she recounts the story of what happened on 26 November in K-Haimual, her village in Myanmar's western Chin State, and then she breaks down.
From BBC â Dec. 21, 2025
On a recent evening, Karuk men and boys gathered by the Klamath wearing traditional regalia and holding spears, bows and quivers made of animal skins and filled with willow branches.
From Los Angeles Times â Aug. 28, 2024
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 â Jun. 3, 2024
He stretches his thin arms above his head, and his whole body, especially his white beard, quivers.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
His lips quivered as he held back tears.
From The Wall Street Journal â 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 â Apr. 9, 2025
“How do you expect a community to recover and heal and move forward when the people who make Lahaina, Lahaina, aren’t even there anymore?” she said at a recent news conference as her voice quivered.
From Seattle Times â Apr. 20, 2024
Time itself quivered with the sound, that terrible, haunting chirping, adversely impacting our mental health forever.
From Salon â Feb. 9, 2024
When the baboon spider was nearly dead—its legs quivered slightly—the wasp flew off.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Through evocative descriptions—the skylark’s trill “hovering in the quivering air,” or the sun rising over a “silvery, dew-thick cow meadow”—Ms. Haynes invites us to take part in the daily rhythms of our natural world.
From The Wall Street Journal â Apr. 17, 2026
"Cathy and Heathcliff's passions vibrate through their dress, their surroundings, and everything else within reach, and you leave the cinema quivering on their own private frequency."
From BBC â Feb. 10, 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 â Dec. 3, 2025
You will achieve nothing by quivering “B-b-but the price-to-earnings ratio!” as its stock continues to trade above this atmosphere.
From Slate â Jul. 8, 2025
She was shaking; quivering with wet and some kind of shock—something even more, he thought, than the kludde.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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