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jounced

verb

past tense of jounce

as in shook

to make a series of small irregular or violent movements a rickety cart jouncing as it was being pulled over the cobblestoned streets

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as in bobbed

to make short up-and-down movements her head jounced as the horse began to gallop

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Recent Examples of jounced Our lunch, a thermos of hot coffee, binoculars, a spotting scope, and two cameras jounced on the seat between us. — Robert Merchant, Outdoor Life, 1 Oct. 2025

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While warming up, the four 2,400-hp Pratt & Whitney engines rattled and shook the plane’s fuselage.

— Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Witnesses said the explosion shook the area as much as the quake.

— Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026

Definition of shook

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One afternoon as a rookie, listening to coaches drone on in a dark room with film cutups flashing in front of them, his head bobbed.

— Alec Lewis, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Six young women — hair fashionably bobbed, shins covered by knee-high socks — posed in dark, modest swimming suits in the tiled abyss of an empty swimming pool.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026

Definition of bobbed

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Once the squid gather near the surface, lines fitted with bait are lowered into the water and rapidly jerked up and down to imitate small prey such as shrimp, triggering strikes before the catch is reeled aboard.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 20 June 2026
Suddenly, the tent jerked and wobbled.

— Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026

Definition of jerked

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The rest of the fields rely on water pumped from underground, and that’s also getting squeezed as California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act kicks in.

— Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
At the hospital, the doctor pumped Isul’s stomach and gave her fluids.

— Min Jin Lee, New Yorker, 19 July 2026

Definition of pumped

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Inside Lee Arena, a palpable energy vibrated through the crowd.

— Latif Love July 23, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026
THe morning after Louisiana’s House primaries were scheduled to take place, worshippers at Mount Zion First Baptist Church in Baton Rouge were on their feet, swaying to the gospel music that vibrated through the wooden pews.

— Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026

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