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quivers

  • present tense form of quiver (3rd person singular).

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His lower lip quivers; there’s an expression on his face that my husband and I used to call “sad baby.”

From Slate May 10, 2026

Iang's face quivers as she recounts the story of what happened on 26 November in K-Haimual, her village in Myanmar's western Chin State, and then she breaks down.

From BBC Dec. 21, 2025

On a recent evening, Karuk men and boys gathered by the Klamath wearing traditional regalia and holding spears, bows and quivers made of animal skins and filled with willow branches.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2024

With calculations based on linear algebra, the research team demonstrated that -- analogous to radioactivity in atomic nuclei -- a magnetic quiver can decay into a more stable state or fission into two separate quivers.

From Science Daily Jun. 3, 2024

Taran collected as many bows and quivers of arrows as he could carry.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander