as in quake
a shaking of the earth
smaller tremors continued for days after the major earthquake
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Recent Examples of tremor
Other industries, meanwhile, have continued to hire or ramped up their plans:
Health care
There’s been no slowdown in hiring for health care, which is largely immune from the economy’s tremors and enjoys a fast-growing market featuring millions of aging baby boomers, Namboothiry said.
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Paul Davidson, USA Today, 2 May 2025
It’s been a decade since the Nepal earthquake, a shallow 7.8 magnitude tremor which killed almost 9,000 people, displaced millions more, and reduced huge swaths of the country to rubble.
—Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 29 Apr. 2025
Some of the animals suffer seizures and tremors, while others seem dazed.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2025
Though the epicentre was more than 900 kilometres away near Mandalay—Myanmar's second-largest city—the tremors were strong enough to bring down the structure in the Thai capital.
—Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
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Paul Davidson, USA Today, 2 May 2025
It’s been a decade since the Nepal earthquake, a shallow 7.8 magnitude tremor which killed almost 9,000 people, displaced millions more, and reduced huge swaths of the country to rubble.
—Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 29 Apr. 2025
Some of the animals suffer seizures and tremors, while others seem dazed.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2025
Though the epicentre was more than 900 kilometres away near Mandalay—Myanmar's second-largest city—the tremors were strong enough to bring down the structure in the Thai capital.
—Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tremor
Noun
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In 2023, powerful quakes killed more than 53,000 people in southeastern Turkey.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 May 2025
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What the quake failed to do, the violence is now doing: marginalizing Port-au-Prince.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
27 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Ring While the United States Geological Survey stresses that factors like the distance from the earthquake, type of soil a building is built on and construction design are all key factors, damage begins to occur if an earthquake reaches somewhere between 4 or 5 magnitude.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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During an earlier monologue, Robin talks about the great earthquake that will one day level the Pacific Northwest, and at times his words sound not like a prophecy or a warning, but an oblique recollection of the emotional earthquake that devastated him.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
28 May 2025
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“Tremor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tremor. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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