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quaking

British  
/ ˈkweɪkɪŋ /

adjective

  1. unstable or unsafe to walk on, as a bog or quicksand

    a quaking bog

    quaking sands
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Example Sentences

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I doubt the Kremlin will be quaking in its clogs over such an answer.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2025

Troubles, however, are also quaking on the offensive side of America’s nuclear-weapons enterprise—specifically, the program to build a new land-based intercontinental ballistic missile, the Sentinel, to replace the 400 current ICBMs, known as Minuteman IIIs.

From Slate • Sep. 16, 2025

He sounded quite irritated that they were asking him about such trivialities when he is the one who has world leaders quaking in their boots as he re-makes the whole world in his image.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2025

In 2017, he founded Project Pando, named for a colony of some 50,000 quaking aspens in Utah connected by a single root system.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2024

I ignore him, get up from my chair, and address Nico as calmly as I can, even though my insides are quaking.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

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