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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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Verb
  • 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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  • After seven years of searching the West for the perfect place to call home, Northern California author and wellness practitioner Osha Reader stumbled upon her peaceful High Sierra retreat by chance.
    David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 28 June 2025
  • After making it around the corner of a nearby Taco Bell, Muller appears to stumble, the footage shows.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2025
Verb
  • The dinos will stomp back into theaters just in time to set off major fireworks at the Fourth of July holiday, or at least that’s the hope.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
  • To close out the show, Megan stomped down the catwalk in the Dipped in Gold One-Piece from her swimwear collection, made in collaboration with Walmart.
    Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 30 May 2025

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“Shamble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shamble. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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