shaky
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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
This was confirmation Pakistan's batting is vulnerable and their bowlers have the skills to challenge England's shaky top order.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
But today’s 40% offers real income, alongside real shock absorption to shaky equity markets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
He had a 10.50 ERA in seven shaky appearances before he went on the IL on April 20.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
“It will only be for a month or so,” Mama says in a shaky voice that gets stronger the more she talks.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
Nigeria's GDP is the fourth largest in Africa, but after years of mismanagement and corruption, its grid is often shakier than that of neighbouring, poorer countries.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
If your yield is already shaky on one chip, it gets a lot shakier when you need two to come out right.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
This suggests that this rebound might be on shakier footing than what investors witnessed last year following the April tariff tantrum, said Craig Johnson, chief market technician at Piper Sandler.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 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
Instead of going back the long way, I hop on a much shakier, nonglass elevator, which I discovered two days ago.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
“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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