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Recent Examples of shakily
On a rainy Saturday last summer, I can be found paddling out, popping up, and generally hanging ten—goofily, shakily, semi-triumphantly—in a skylit East Village walk-up.
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Sally Singer, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2025
The defense began shakily, giving up 231 yards of total offense in the first half.
—Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 30 Aug. 2025
On YouTube, cats with radial nerve paralysis were able to walk shakily.
—Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Sally Singer, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2025
The defense began shakily, giving up 231 yards of total offense in the first half.
—Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 30 Aug. 2025
On YouTube, cats with radial nerve paralysis were able to walk shakily.
—Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shakily
Adverb
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The result is a faintly comic curio that hurtles along without much impact.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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Light glowed faintly behind the curtains.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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The objects were delicately retrieved from the ground like pieces of the puzzles of history.—
Helen I. Bennett,
Hartford Courant,
5 Jan. 2026
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At first glance, the choker reprises the incisions and delicately curving edges meant to evoke Chanel’s distinctive quilting, with a sliding clasp closure to adjust it closely to the neck.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
4 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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They’d been poorly reviewed, sold weakly, and were generally held in low esteem except by a select few.—
Vince Passaro,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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Many systems are either highly mobile but weakly connected, or strongly connected but slow to reconfigure and prone to losing mobility.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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One man aboard the boat knew how to navigate the mangroves and sandbars of the keys, and with the late summer sun beating down on the rafters, the boat pushed out feebly into the open ocean.—
Miriam Pensack,
The Dial,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Shakily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shakily. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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