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High five to her agent for the maximize-the-moment strategy, because Corrin’s quakingly vulnerable take on Diana, Princess of Wales, for the line readings caught “The Crown” producers’ eye.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2021

But I believed every moment of Radcliffe’s committed performance, from his faultless American accent to the way he quakingly argues his character’s case.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2018

What are we New Yorkers, and our representatives in Congress, so quakingly afraid of?

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2010

Then she reverted to her old rough & tumble with a comic song called He Forgot to Come Back, wherein she quakingly called for "Hennerry."

From Time Magazine Archive

But, Aunt," I persisted, quakingly, "couldn't I go alone?

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)