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noun

as in shiver

an instance of shaking involuntarily with fear or cold a quiver ran through the audience when the monster cornered the movie's hero

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verb

as in to shake

to make a series of small irregular or violent movements aspen leaves quivering in the breeze

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Noun

As holiday feasts approach, fatten up your outdoor gear quiver with these favorites curated from Backcountry’s seasonal gift guides. —

Outside, 17 Nov. 2025 Fast-forward a decade or more, and the brand is back in my quiver of reusable water bottles with its stainless steel style. —

Clay Abney, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2025

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Few things shake the confidence of a person like crawling to the top bunk of a quivering bed frame, your feet wrapping uncomfortably along the frail metal rungs of the ladder. —

Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 27 Jan. 2026 Danes is a four-time Golden Globe winner who brought her quivering lower lip to bear on the role of an author who thinks her next-door neighbor killed his wife. —

Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for quiver

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Noun

And some shivers, because that title isn’t a misdirect.

— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 27 Mar. 2026
Loznitsa’s methods are grim and exacting, but the effect is never monotonous; there are shivers of Hitchcockian suspense, plus a whispery cackle of satire that veers toward the Kafkaesque.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026