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The sad truth is that most people didn’t do much after that but shake their heads.

From Salon

Perhaps the most sympathetic reason Williams gave for the glass cliff phenomenon is that sometimes an institution wants to signal they’re shaking things up by promoting someone who isn’t a cookie-cutter white guy.

From Salon

Startled, she began screaming, “Get off, get off,” and tried shaking her legs, eventually batting the squirrel off, she said.

A woman says she is "shaken" and "heartbroken" after being racially abused by four children while travelling on the Elizabeth line.

From BBC

Dozens of residents have written on social media that they felt their homes shake following the explosion.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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