shaken up

past participle of shake up

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of shaken up Tatianna Santos, who lives in a nearby neighborhood, said everyone that she's kept tabs on since that night tell her they're shaken up. — Dennis Valera, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2026 Things are shaken up when a mysterious figure (Lee Pace) arrives in the sisters’ quaint New England town with a new quest for them. — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 28 Aug. 2026 Nearly 23 million of those impressions would have been overlooked in the pre-OOH era, and Schroeder himself acknowledged the way the 2020 measurement glow-up has shaken up the Tryptophan Fest. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 21 Aug. 2026 The pilot assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, in Miramar, California, is seen with his face bloodied and appearing a little shaken up in the body camera footage released Friday by the Yakima County Sheriff's Office. — Jennifer Watts, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026 The past few weeks have seen the business and AI communities shaken up by companies announcing that their models have hacked other corporations. — Nisha Talagala, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 Schmitt was visibly shaken up and could be seen rubbing his left knee in discomfort. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 28 July 2026 Spain’s dismantling of favourites France has certainly shaken up The Athletic’s ranking of the top 50 players at the World Cup, but just how much? — Liam Twomey, New York Times, 16 July 2026 Ahead of his final year at the prestigious Buckley School, Bret (Igby Rigney) is shaken up by a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory (Homer Gere), who arrives just as a serial killer called the Trawler is terrorizing LA. — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 13 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shaken up
Verb
  • That result shocked many Germans who had believed their country had developed an immunity to nationalism and assertions of racial superiority after confronting the horrors of its Nazi past through education and laws to prohibit persecution.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Now a corporate security professional based in Chicago, Neagley is shocked when her childhood bestie, Tommy (Jhaleil Swaby), is killed on the L train tracks, seemingly walking into an oncoming train while high.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Last Friday, the artist Pink published a lengthy criticism of Macklemore’s on-stage polemic, writing that his comments and use of violent wartime imagery had frightened many Jewish people, including her.
    — Caitlin Dewey, Vox, 16 Sep. 2026
  • However, Stone told Bialik that she was not frightened by the encounter.
    — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Russell’s previous things, HBO put money into, but the whole anti-DEI crusade has meant that a subject matter like this has made American companies scared to invest in it.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Researchers knew part of what scared children on 9/11 were the loud sirens and the fact that trusted figures such as firefighters and police officers were hurt.
    — Julie Dobrow, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2026

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“Shaken up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shaken%20up. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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