convulsion
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Despite suffering from a convulsion hours before the final.
From BBC • May 21, 2025
The remaining two recordings were triggered by sound or motion, but only one suggested that a muscle convulsion, a sign of seizure, had occurred.
From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2024
Many cryptocurrency proponents remain bullish — seeing the year’s collapse as just another convulsion in the technology’s lurch toward the future.
From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2022
In the middle of this convulsion, Ms. de Bonafini’s life was turned upside down.
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2022
Then I rose up on my curtainless bed, trembling and quivering; and then the still, dark night witnessed the convulsion of despair, and heard the burst of passion.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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