tremulant

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tremulant
Adjective
  • Whereas the rest of Death in the Family brings you into the characters’ inner lives through lingering close-ups that capture every tremulous breath or furrowed brow, this sequence is shot at a clinical remove and edited at a brisk pace.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 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
  • Babies also have new behaviors, from a playful and inquisitive Diplodocus to a more timid Moros Intrepidus.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In the bit, Rihanna and Ronnie (Andy Samberg) are dropping knowledge to a group of grade schoolers with the singer crooning in her power range as timid Ronnie can barely rise above a whisper to her utter consternation.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 14 Oct. 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
  • The Japanese had cyclotrons but no nuclear lobby driven by frightened, concerned, or ambitious scientists.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Her parents were opposed to the Russian occupation but too frightened to talk about it.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • After long mornings at my father’s bedside, my mother and I arrived at Confiserie Sprüngli weary and afraid.
    Aleksandra Crapanzano, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
  • And while Parker wasn’t afraid of no ghosts, what about Huey Lewis’ lawyers?
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Still, Lebanon has reason to be especially alarmed.
    Ari Daniel, NPR, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Experts the Times spoke to seemed more alarmed.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Tremulant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tremulant. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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