convulse
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Oil markets could convulse if Tehran disrupted Gulf shipping.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
Then Hipolito’s body began to convulse — a possible seizure.
From Salon • Jan. 14, 2026
I’m well past that point; some of his stories and novels I’ve read dozens, even hundreds of times, and they can still make me convulse in laughter.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025
Armies can move on your words; markets can convulse; diplomacy can unravel.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2022
He was very thin and perpetually astonished and somewhat gap-toothed, and his manner of talking alone was enough to convulse them, and he enjoyed it.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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