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Recent Examples of shamble One nickname — Zombie tranq — reflects shambling from deep sedation. Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2025 Its ambling, shambling tour of crashing parties, crashing on available couches, and reluctantly crashing your way into maturity, one misadventure at a time, is not a bug but a feature here. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024 The cultural preoccupation with zombies shambles on in The Last of Us and other movies and video games. Neda Ulaby, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024 To this end, the new generation of morticians (another neologism meant to conjure expertise) bought up shambling Victorian mansions in swish residential districts and invented a new form of comfort. Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for shamble
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  • Prosecutors alleged Kelsey illegally shuffled money from his state senate campaigin committee to his federal campaign.
    Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • Each of these had a variable number of lithium atoms at each of the corners of these structures, and molecular simulations showed that lithium ions could readily move between these locations, allowing the material to shuffle ions around rapidly.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2025
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  • Hegseth, a former Fox TV host who has stumbled through several controversies during his six months in office, sat silently next to Trump without volunteering any information about the decision that apparently came on his watch.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 9 July 2025
  • Austin Neudecker, Weave Growth YES: Robot couriers may stumble today, but over a longer horizon, their spread feels inevitable.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2025
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  • Complaining on NextDoor about traffic, some locals fled downtown Austin like a movie monster was stomping behind them.
    Ramon Ramirez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • Eighteen months ago, playing those songs inspired fans at the Ryman Auditorium to stomp their feet, throw Resistol hats in the air and soak church pews in alcohol for two hours.
    Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025

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“Shamble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shamble. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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