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as in shudder
an instance of shaking involuntarily with fear or cold
the prisoner experienced a sudden shiver when confronted with the sight of the dark basement
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as in butterflies
shivers plural
a sense of panic or extreme nervousness
looking down from the window ledge sent shivers up my spine
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Recent Examples of shiver
Lizz Schumer, People.com, 24 Nov. 2024
Finding a tick embedded in your dog’s skin can send a shiver down your spine.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2024
Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
After that, Cruz immersed himself chin-deep in Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election, then made an appalling escape to Cancun, Mexico, as millions of Texans shivered through a deadly winter storm.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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Noun
With darkness descending at what feels like midafternoon, late fall is the perfect time to crack open a book that will send shivers down your spine.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 24 Nov. 2024
Finding a tick embedded in your dog’s skin can send a shiver down your spine.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2024
Verb
Times Square: New Yorkers gather here each New Year’s Eve to shiver, hear Anderson Cooper filibuster and distract themselves from the fact that the Yankees haven’t won a World Series in 15 years and the Mets haven’t won one in this century.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
After that, Cruz immersed himself chin-deep in Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election, then made an appalling escape to Cancun, Mexico, as millions of Texans shivered through a deadly winter storm.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shiver
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Winter is coming to New York, which should send a shiver — and a shudder — through residents who know how close the city came to catastrophe just two years ago, and how little has been achieved to prevent it from happening again.Jon Pepper, National Review, 14 Dec. 2024
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With more than 67 million Americans collecting stipends now and hundreds of millions more counting on benefits for their retirement, any threat to the system’s benefits sends a shudder through the nation’s workers.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
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The one man who should have been there was Daddy, but in his place stood a photographer who, trembling, held the camera and filmed these moments for Daddy.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Dramatically reenacting the scene in the special, Foxx’s legs tremble, his eyes wide.Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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In Season 2, that vote occurs after each game, and if the majority chooses to quit, the survivors split the pot — everyone gets a little richer and goes home alive.Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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The couple will split time between Texas and Virginia, undoubtedly looking for one more property to save.Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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The Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot delves into a crime that shook the town of Channelview, Texas, in 1991.Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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Add chicken pieces to bag, a few at a time, shaking to coat.Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2024
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At first glance, the hardscrabble terrain of Big Bend National Park, which hugs a bend in the Rio Grande between Texas and Mexico, looks like a moonscape: desolate and slightly threatening.Pam LeBlanc, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Jan. 2023
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Although the terrain is arid and desolate now, around 10,000 years ago this was a lagoon near Lake Turkana, surrounded by lush vegetation.Hillary Waterman, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019
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Just as the clock struck midnight on October 31, wrapping up another Halloween season, the undisputed queen of Christmas herself, Mariah Carey, struck one last terrifying blow into the hearts of her quivering subjects.Michael Savio, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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Some remind me of Piranesi’s imaginary prisons with their multilevel interiors diagonally slashed by staircases and shafts of sunlight, their ambiguous atmosphere quivering with both horror and exhilaration.Justin Davidson, Curbed, 2 Oct. 2024
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Which leaves the Bronx (and the city’s taxpayers) with a set of useless, money-sucking megastructures that are probably destined to be torn down.Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2024
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And earlier this week, rebels seized the city of Hama tearing down this large statue of Assad's father Hafez.ABC News, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024
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Your emotions may be shaking and quaking deep within.USA TODAY, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2024
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Scientists have confirmed that one of Earth's most remarkable living beings—a massive forest of quaking —is between 16,000 and 80,000 years old, solidifying its place among the planet's most ancient organisms.Tom Howarth, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Shiver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shiver. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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