as in shaking
to make a series of small irregular or violent movements
the engine began to judder alarmingly just a few miles outside of Brighton
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Verb
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Symptoms like a fast heart rate, or shortness of breath, shaking and chills, confusion or lethargy.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
24 Dec. 2024 -
In the video, a terrified Archie can be seen frozen, staring and shaking.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
23 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Not literal strings, of course—but tiny loops or snippets of vibrating energy.—
Tom Siegfried,
JSTOR Daily,
19 Dec. 2024
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Because everything is moving, everything vibrating in one great dance that is the act of becoming.—
Jennifer Harlan,
New York Times,
13 Dec. 2024
Noun
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While there could be other explanations for the mysterious X-ray patterns, such as oscillations in the black hole’s corona, those are less understood.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Jan. 2025
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Mountain waves are oscillations in airflow that can happen when the wind blows across a mountain or hill.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Orange County Register,
10 Jan. 2025
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