shaky
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But today’s 40% offers real income, alongside real shock absorption to shaky equity markets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
The central defensive partnership of Dujon Sterling and Emmanuel Fernandez looked particularly shaky.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
To start the regular season, Sasaki was shaky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Phoenix made a shaky start in their reply as Josh Tongue removed Will Smeed and Rehan Ahmed in consecutive balls on his way to figures of 2-21.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Voice shaky, I tell him about my trip to Madame Violet.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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
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
The underperformance is unusual because healthcare is considered a defensive sector—one to move into, not away from, when the economy gets shakier.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 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
He always looked kind of nervous, but he appeared even shakier than usual.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
“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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