as in ache
a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body
can't stand those funny tingles I get when my foot falls asleep
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Recent Examples of tingle
Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2024
Unlike other plumpers, this one leaves a slight tingle rather than an overbearing burning sensation- thank goodness!
—Taylor Lane, StyleCaster, 3 Dec. 2024
Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2025
Symptoms can involve pain or tingling in the mid-back.3
Lumbar Foraminal Stenosis
Your lumbar spine is the lower part of your spine.
—Jennifer Steinhoff, Verywell Health, 13 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The world's largest slithering snake is sure to send a tingle down your spine.
—Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2024
Unlike other plumpers, this one leaves a slight tingle rather than an overbearing burning sensation- thank goodness!
—Taylor Lane, StyleCaster, 3 Dec. 2024
Verb
Covid-19 wreaked havoc on my body, from my head, where visible bald patches were once a reminder of where my hair fell out in large clumps, to my toes, which tingle, burn, and go numb from neuropathy.
—Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2025
Symptoms can involve pain or tingling in the mid-back.3
Lumbar Foraminal Stenosis
Your lumbar spine is the lower part of your spine.
—Jennifer Steinhoff, Verywell Health, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tingle
Noun
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The disease moves quickly, with patients experiencing high fever, body aches, weakness, headache, a sore throat and, in some, a red, spotty rash.—
Mark Kortepeter,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The symptoms described—initial fatigue and aches, followed by high fever and a debilitating cough—were similar in several other cases mentioned by SHOT.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Men dressed as 1880s gunfighters are forever clomping up and down wooden sidewalks with jingling spurs and holstered revolvers on their belts.—
Richard Grant,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
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The first half of the instrumental sounds like wind chimes jingling around in a storm.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Having to walk past those luxurious, roomy, and comfortable-looking lie-flat beds in business-class on your way to economy is enough to trigger a pang of jealousy.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Mar. 2025
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As the time of iftar, the breaking of the fast, nears, a day’s worth of hunger pangs combine with jockeying among patrons desperate to get their marook loaves and rush home before the call to prayer sounds from mosque minarets.—
Kiana Hayeri,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Sure, Italians look darn elegant and effortless sipping a spritz, but that cigar ring clinking the glass is purposefully chosen and those sunglasses (likely bought at the local ottica) weren’t just a quick find at a gas station.—
Nneya Richards,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Mar. 2025
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Kendall Jenner clinks glasses with Billy Dec at the Blueprint Underground Cocktail Club in Nashville, Tennessee on March 13.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
22 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Because after all the highs of this compelling season for Aston Villa, there have been more than enough late stings to make the latest feel eerily familiar.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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Gary is a professor who works undercover stings for the police as a fake hitman-for-hire.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Shaking the capsules produces audio signals that range from rattling stones, over tinkling coins to swooshing sand.—
Erico Guizzo,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Oct. 2018
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Jeff Goldblum tinkled the ivories during a moving In Memoriam section at the BAFTA Film Awards.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2025
Noun
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In a lengthy interview with The Daily Mail, Moran's friend, Terry Stone, told the outlet that Moran's girlfriend was the one to encourage him to seek medical help after the actor was experiencing neck pain.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez,
FOXNews.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Idaho police department faces scrutiny: Officers shoot disabled teen 9 times Mayor says shooting brought pain to community The officers involved were placed on administrative leave.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
13 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The move has rattled economists, manufacturers, and security experts.—
Stephanie Hanes,
Christian Science Monitor,
18 Apr. 2025
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Stocks in the value and dividends category put on strong performances in March, as uncertainty around President Donald Trump’s tariff policy rattled the major averages, Bank of America found.—
Darla Mercado, CFP®,
CNBC,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Tingle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tingle. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
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