trembled

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His firm started to see trouble at the end of 2025 and feared that if anything remotely trembled the market, it would cause aftereffects in the economy: higher inflation and lower interest rates.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

There is something almost absurd about attempting to appraise “Gilgamesh,” as though one were asked to appraise wind, or love, or that first human thought that trembled toward language.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

As the country’s fourth-largest investment bank, Lehman Brothers, collapsed and its fifth-largest, Bear Sterns, was liquidated in a “fire sale,” the financial system trembled at the brink of collapse.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2025

The ground trembled so violently some people thought there was an earthquake.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2024

Masvita produced thin, wailing cries as she lay on her mat, and Nhamo trembled as though she had malaria.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer