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- proper noun One of a
Christian Protestant religioussect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms a part of their worship.
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Examples
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WINSTON WEATHERSPOON, SHAKER HEIGHTS SENIOR: At Shaker, a lot of the times African Americans, they don't see school as a means to an ends of success, so they don't take it as seriously and they might think, oh, white kids are just going to be smarter than me.
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"Zat -- what you call Shaker -- eet is ze prettiest -- so chic -- voila!" and once more she patted it on Cora's head.
The Motor Girls Margaret Penrose
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"The object of Baby Shaker is to stop the incessant crying of an infant pictured on screen by violently shaking the iPhone, at which point two red" x "marks appear over the baby's eyes."
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President Obama tells audience in Shaker Heights, Ohio, on Thursday that current system breeds wasteful spending.
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"My attitude is I want to get it right, but I also want to get it done promptly," Obama told a packed town hall audience in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
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The president is slated to take his reform pitch to Ohio Thursday afternoon, touring the Cleveland Clinic - a hospital he has repeatedly praised as a model of high-quality, low-cost care - and hosting a town hall meeting in Shaker Heights.
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Worst line: Frank describes how the national swerve to the right affected his hometown, the affluent Mission Hills, Kansas, and says you “can observe the same changes” in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
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“Baby Shaker is obviously in very poor taste, but if taste were a guide, the App Store would be an awful lot smaller,” says The Register, “Although that would probably be no bad thing.”
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Joseph Burrucker, 82, a Tuskegee air-traffic controller who now lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio, tells us he is “ambivalent” about going because of the logistics.
Tuskegee Airmen Honored With Invitation, but Challenged by Logistics - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Joseph Burrucker, 82, a Tuskegee air-traffic controller who now lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio, tells us he is “ambivalent” about going because of the logistics.
Tuskegee Airmen Honored With Invitation, but Challenged by Logistics - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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