shaky
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Sven Botman: Had a shaky pre-season but looking more assured.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Yet the movie leans into this shaky idea, with Emily Raine acting like a new friend dedicated to helping Owen find his Emily.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Plus, buying a refurbished phone, OpenAI’s shaky finances, the $3 trillion in off-balance-sheet AI debt and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
His return wasn’t triumphant, as he had three blown saves and two more shaky outings in non-save situations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
He squatted by the pump, shaky and sick.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
But UBS analysts said the company could try to give itself more flexibility for a wider range of outcomes in its financial forecast, due to the the leadership change and a shakier economic backdrop.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 5, 2026
Last week’s Treasury auctions were shakier than usual.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
The same could be said of Lesli Margherita’s Mrs. Lovett, the proprietor of a filthy and failing Fleet Street pie shop, but it’s a shakier case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
But pinning hopes for those gains on retail investors is shakier.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
“How’re you doing, sweetheart?” she asked, her voice faint, her breath even shakier than it had been yesterday.
From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
“OpenAI’s nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations,” Apple’s complaint said, accusing the AI lab of “a pattern of theft.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
"OpenAI's nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations, rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misappropriated trade secrets," the complaint said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
That is one element of this which the committee is doubtless going to want to probe further, and perhaps where Sir Olly felt on shakiest ground.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
Then came a 10-foot stretch in which you had to swing yourself between vertically hanging ropes, with only the shakiest of footing below.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
Morgan to buy it by offering a knockdown price and guaranteeing Bear Stearns’s shakiest assets.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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