as in shaking
to make a series of small irregular or violent movements
the glasses and knickknacks on the shelves vibrated during the slight earthquake
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Recent Examples of vibrating
Rodríguez’s phone is vibrating, shaking the bottle and glasses, though the chicharrones don’t move.
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Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
This zoo of proposals all introduce new effects outside the horizon that should change how a vibrating black hole emits gravitational waves.
—Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2025
Imagine 750-horsepower wind machines kicking up debris and haptic signals vibrating the seats as the iconic twister lifts Dorothy’s house and deposits it next to the yellow-brick road.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
The story of damped harmonic systems goes back to 1900, when British physicist Horace Lamb built a simple mathematical model of a particle vibrating inside a solid.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025
Entre2, Vidbertus A brilliant, very fresh Parellada with a vibrating acidity, very drinkable.
—Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
In a different city, a different time, but vibrating at the same sacred frequency, a new story began to hum.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 4 Aug. 2025
Not literal strings, of course—but tiny loops or snippets of vibrating energy.
—Tom Siegfried, JSTOR Daily, 19 Dec. 2024
Tiny diaphragms, cantilevers, vibrating masses, or circuitous channels, usually smaller than 100 micrometers (the diameter of a human hair), respond to a physical stimulus and then transduce it to an electronic signal.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2018
Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
This zoo of proposals all introduce new effects outside the horizon that should change how a vibrating black hole emits gravitational waves.
—Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2025
Imagine 750-horsepower wind machines kicking up debris and haptic signals vibrating the seats as the iconic twister lifts Dorothy’s house and deposits it next to the yellow-brick road.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
The story of damped harmonic systems goes back to 1900, when British physicist Horace Lamb built a simple mathematical model of a particle vibrating inside a solid.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025
Entre2, Vidbertus A brilliant, very fresh Parellada with a vibrating acidity, very drinkable.
—Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
In a different city, a different time, but vibrating at the same sacred frequency, a new story began to hum.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 4 Aug. 2025
Not literal strings, of course—but tiny loops or snippets of vibrating energy.
—Tom Siegfried, JSTOR Daily, 19 Dec. 2024
Tiny diaphragms, cantilevers, vibrating masses, or circuitous channels, usually smaller than 100 micrometers (the diameter of a human hair), respond to a physical stimulus and then transduce it to an electronic signal.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vibrating
Verb
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Practice rounds sometimes turn into showcases of raw talent, the kind that leave teammates shaking their heads at the sound off his club face.—
Zach Sweet,
Kansas City Star,
9 Sep. 2025
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Police alleged that the brain bleed was consistent with shaking an infant.—
Liam Quinn,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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The story follows a Jewish family across five generations, from childhood to adulthood, blending laughs and tear-jerking moments, just like in Bob-Waksberg’s other shows.—
Braedon Montgomery,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Tear-jerking purple prose designed to make a Baby Boomer nostalgic and sad.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
20 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Andy sighed, shuddering between them.—
Bryan Washington,
New Yorker,
7 Sep. 2025
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The White House will be well aware of this fact, particularly in an environment where fiscally conservative Republicans will be shuddering at Uncle Sam’s $37 trillion (and growing) national debt.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Vibrating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vibrating. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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