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as in shuddered
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as in splintered
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Earth shuddered with yet another wave of extinctions in this initial chill.—
Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
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For much of last season, Atletico appeared set to seriously compete on all fronts, but their season shuddered to a stop in March with a series of disappointing defeats by Barcelona and Madrid across La Liga, Copa del Rey and the Champions League.—
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The country is splintered, and language gets used as ammunition.—
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But as the supercontinent finally splintered apart around 200 million years ago and the near-endless age of dinosaurs found its groove, the planet recovered to conditions more hospitable to animal life.—
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Sam is totally wracked with guilt about his violent past now.—
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Finally, Cailee Spaeny plays a prodigious cellist wracked with chronic pain.—
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Termessos was believed to have been destroyed by an earthquake the exact date of which is not known, but possibly the 4th or 5th century.—
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As of this year, almost all of Gaza’s schools have been damaged or destroyed.—
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The earthquake shook at a depth of just 3 miles, with its epicenter approximately 10 miles south of Trona.—
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Jean’s father crossed to Wole, shook his hand firmly.—
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Meanwhile, Cleveland was mostly splitting its DH at-bats between Manzardo and David Fry … whose September pop came on an accidental Tarik Skubal fastball to his nose.—
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The acquisition announcement comes as MSNBC prepares to split from NBC as part of parent company Comcast’s move to spin off its cable properties into a separate company, to be called Versant.—
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The defensive star’s recent trade from Dallas to Green Bay quaked the NFL.—
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America will be watching Monday night’s early game, perhaps in much the same way traffic can’t help but slow to watch two cars that have just wrecked.—
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The crash marks the second time a vehicle wrecked into a dentist’s office in the Kansas City metro this week.—
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“Shivered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shivered. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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