tremulant

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tremulant
Adjective
  • Snook is excellent at playing tremulous and overwhelming feeling without ever seeming hammy or phony, and Marissa’s raw emotion anchors All Her Fault in something real even as the plot reveals grow increasingly (and enjoyably) outrageous.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Throughout the rest of the movie, the unnamed child, who’s played by Delaney Quinn, is presented in fragments: a close-up of hands mangling a selection from a breakfast buffet, the curve of an ear when being spooned in bed, a tremulous voice coming from the back seat of the car.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Wonkier reads, to be sure—but these both provide useful context for those looking to understand why the Democratic Party can be so timid before numbers.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
  • In 2024, the Harris-Walz campaign seemed timid, participating in few press conferences and potentially adversarial interviews.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • The lesser among them, the timorous, the doubtful, and the wavering, stood back, watching, waiting for some greater sign, savoring their doubts.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The great danger of that moment was that a political backlash — abetted by a furious media and timorous politicians — would lead to a restoration of the policy of Roe.
    The Editors, National Review, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • Dickinson appeared somewhere between perturbed and seething.
    Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Nearly a week later, Scott and Kodi Allred, a couple traveling to visit their son at the University of Northern Colorado, saw the frightened black dachshund darting along the same stretch of road near Elk Mountain.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Sometimes, a frightened reaction is inexplicable.
    The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The government hopes for rain, but people are already afraid.
    Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 10 Nov. 2025
  • As a result, Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin wasn't afraid to acknowledge just how bad things went for star quarterback Aaron Rodgers and the rest of his team as a whole.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Experts are especially alarmed that the CDC is investigating splitting up the MMR vaccine, which protects kids against measles, mumps and rubella in one shot.
    NPR, NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Phil, Myrtle’s son, who lived out of state, became alarmed when a concerned neighbor later notified him that his mother had vanished.
    David Chiu, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
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“Tremulant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tremulant. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.

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