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shaking

noun as in trembling

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“We’re a bunch of people moving around, shaking, some have walkers, it’s nothing to be ashamed of. We’re a beautiful bunch.”

Two years after a crushing breakup, singer-songwriter Amanda Shires is sitting in an empty hotel bar, her arms shaking as she reads a page from her notebook.

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.

Several could be seen shaking their heads as he denied climate change, calling it the "greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world", and refuted the use of renewable energy.

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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