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as in to fidget
to make jerky or restless movements
the dog twitched in her sleep
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as in contraction
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Recent Examples of twitch
Lisa Bloch, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
Just as cats lash, twitch or shake their tails to communicate with each other, Sinosauropteryx may have done the same.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2024
The combination of muscle catabolism and electrolyte imbalance can cause muscle weakness, aches, cramps, twitches, and spasms.
—Forest Miller, Verywell Health, 16 Aug. 2024
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Verb
Bunnies, with their fluffy ears and twitching noses, have a magical and unique way of bringing joy into the home.
—Lisa Bloch, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
Just as cats lash, twitch or shake their tails to communicate with each other, Sinosauropteryx may have done the same.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
Noun
A lot of this deducing is based on a slight cheek twitch that Imogene spots while talking to Teddy, which is some really good detective work for someone who has only been on the job for three days.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2024
The combination of muscle catabolism and electrolyte imbalance can cause muscle weakness, aches, cramps, twitches, and spasms.
—Forest Miller, Verywell Health, 16 Aug. 2024
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Verb
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Movements should be purposeful and calm, avoiding fidgeting, which can project anxiety or lack of control.Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Hands that had never fidgeted were suddenly restless, moving back and forth.Sage Mehta, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Verb
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Your limbs, or even your entire upper body, may jerk or thrash in the process.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
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Yanking a zipper shut is more likely to break teeth or jerk the slider off the track.Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2024
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That throws off the rhythm of contractions and can eventually lead to heart failure, which is fatal without drastic intervention like a transplant.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2024
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Poor contraction causes the heart to not pump with enough force for blood to circulate properly.1 Systolic heart failure happens when the heart pumps at 40% or less of its ejection fraction.Alexandria Nyembwe, PhD, RN, Health, 4 Nov. 2024
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In a lecture in 2012, the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson considered (opens a new tab) gravitational waves from the sun, where the violent churning of matter inside the star should constantly send out mild tremors in space-time.Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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Last week was a particularly active period for the volcano, with over 1,000 thousand minutes of tremors being detected each day, and huge plumes of ash being spewed out of the mountain.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
Verb
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Seated at a table, each tribe was presented with a bowl of live, squirming grubs in dirt.Emily Nussbaum, Vulture, 5 July 2024
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Bacteria and other small creatures squirming inside bodies often have to propel themselves through thick, viscous environments.Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2024
Verb
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If the court doesn’t grant them that injunction, NASCAR is ready to yank those Charters and let the team’s race as open entries.Greg Engle, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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This noted, what Mother is brilliant at is showing us the rug being yanked from under her feet, again and again, in terse, breathless prose—sometimes girlishly purple, at others brusque with the idioms of the era.Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
Noun
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But now the Republicans may be feeling a twinge of Vance-itis, because swing voters may not be as thrilled with mini-Trump as Trump is.Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
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Around the start of a new year, a sudden twinge of urgency boils in the pit of our stomachs for something new and fresh.Samantha Sasso, refinery29.com, 25 Jan. 2024
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Viewed from the rear three-quarter angle, the Vanquish recalls an arrow, drawn from its quiver and aimed at the target.Dan Carney, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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The not-so-exact replica only has two arrows in its quiver and is made of far heavier solid bronze.Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
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“Twitch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twitch. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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