as in earthquake
a shaking of the earth
the quake registered 6.5 on the Richter scale, causing widespread damage
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as in to shake
to make a series of small irregular or violent movements
the horror film was so scary it left us quaking with fear for hours afterwards
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Recent Examples of quake
Tim Fang, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
Haitians have qualified for TPS since 2010 following a 7.0 magnitude earth, also under Obama, quake struck the country's capital, followed by rampant political unrest, gang violence, and disease.
—Zoe Sobel, NPR, 16 Mar. 2026
Julia Sullivan, Outside, 23 Dec. 2025
Anyone whose legs have quaked after step-ups, or whose chest has felt personally attacked by push-ups, would argue: yes.
—Jenny McCoy, SELF, 8 Dec. 2025
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Noun
The quake was reportedly also felt as far away as Palo Alto, the Santa Cruz area and Pebble Beach in Monterey County.
—Tim Fang, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
Haitians have qualified for TPS since 2010 following a 7.0 magnitude earth, also under Obama, quake struck the country's capital, followed by rampant political unrest, gang violence, and disease.
—Zoe Sobel, NPR, 16 Mar. 2026
Verb
The jiggly, quaking contraption is eye-catching—a natural social media star.
—Julia Sullivan, Outside, 23 Dec. 2025
Anyone whose legs have quaked after step-ups, or whose chest has felt personally attacked by push-ups, would argue: yes.
—Jenny McCoy, SELF, 8 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quake
Noun
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It is estimated that there are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year.—
CA Earthquake Bot,
Sacbee.com,
27 Mar. 2026
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An extremely large instance of calving can even shake the ground, causing a glacial earthquake, also known as a cryoseism or icequake.—
Andrew Coletti,
Popular Science,
26 Mar. 2026
Verb
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From Monday to Friday, the reception area will serve as a nutrition center for athletes, offering smoothies, protein shakes, granola and anything else an athlete could need.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
28 Mar. 2026
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After an accidental explosion in a West Village bomb factory killed three Weathermen, those who survived, shaken by their friends’ deaths, swore off deadly violence.—
Zayd Ayers Dohrn,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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By the time symptoms first appear, the majority of these cells are lost forever, meaning the disease can progress for years before any of the telltale physical symptoms emerge—tremors, stiffness and slowness of movement, among others.—
Todd Weissman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2026
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Until recently, scientists could only manually read through graphs of seismic recordings to pick out tremors, then use the data to trace the movements of magma that caused them.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026
Verb
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And while many shudder at the idea of an AI job apocalypse, others are leveraging the technology to answer complex questions.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
30 Mar. 2026
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The effort paid off almost immediately, said Jonas Preine, a volcanologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; by chance, at the end of January 2025, the region began to shudder.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026
Verb
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In a viral video of the aftermath, the robot jerks back and forth to shake the glass off, showering yet more dangerous shards onto the sidewalk.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
26 Mar. 2026
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Tony Fauci was not just jerking the country around.—
David Blumenthal,
Fortune,
24 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The kind of person who trembles at watermarks is not the sort of person who’s putting marble in the dishwasher.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
19 Mar. 2026
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One man described how, before fleeing home in Tehran, explosions made his 6½-year-old son tremble in fear.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Basically, how fast a sound source vibrates.—
Laura Kiniry,
Popular Science,
25 Mar. 2026
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Other researchers soon realized that his formula, now known as the Veneziano amplitude, implied that hadrons aren’t particles, but vibrating strings.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
23 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The child had jumped at the sting, her bottom lip quivering.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Mar. 2026
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The show launched on Sky Saturday night with a dire Cold Open featuring prime minister Keir Starmer quivering over taking a call from Donald Trump where not one single memorable line was uttered.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
21 Mar. 2026
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“Quake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quake. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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