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He shambled into the room.
disconsolate and exhausted after losing the match, the wrestler shambled toward the locker room
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Its ambling, shambling tour of crashing parties, crashing on available couches, and reluctantly crashing your way into maturity, one misadventure at a time, is not a bug but a feature here.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024
The cultural preoccupation with zombies shambles on in The Last of Us and other movies and video games.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
To this end, the new generation of morticians (another neologism meant to conjure expertise) bought up shambling Victorian mansions in swish residential districts and invented a new form of comfort.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
Movies may have led you to believe heroic astronauts can slip on a space suit and leap to the rescue, but under current designs this would result in Brad Pitt clutching his joints and shambling to a very painful (if handsome) death.
—Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024
The cultural preoccupation with zombies shambles on in The Last of Us and other movies and video games.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
To this end, the new generation of morticians (another neologism meant to conjure expertise) bought up shambling Victorian mansions in swish residential districts and invented a new form of comfort.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
Movies may have led you to believe heroic astronauts can slip on a space suit and leap to the rescue, but under current designs this would result in Brad Pitt clutching his joints and shambling to a very painful (if handsome) death.
—Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
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“Shamble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shamble. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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