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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One finding is that lower wave height conditions associated with the Pacific-North American (PNA) oscillation can entice swimmers.—
Marshall Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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The team at Queen's University Belfast had focused on a particularly powerful solar flare from 2012, analyzing the density shifts that took place in the atmosphere alongside the flare's own oscillations.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Juddering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/juddering. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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