convulsion
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No one should have to endure such horrible, public pain, experienced simultaneously with a nationwide convulsion.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
What they couldn’t know at the time was that a major convulsion was coming for the golf world: LIV’s funding was about to evaporate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
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
In the middle of this convulsion, Ms. de Bonafini’s life was turned upside down.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
At 5:12 a.m. on April 18,1906, the earth beneath San Francisco heaved inward upon itself in a titanic, magnitude 7.8 convulsion.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Symptoms of bird flu in mammals include tremors, convulsions, seizures and muscle weakness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
In a coffee shop in Greenland's capital Nuuk, Lykke Lynge looked fondly at her four kids as they sipped their hot chocolate, seemingly oblivious to the world's convulsions.
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
His company may emerge from today’s pinball-like experience still needing a strategy to survive and prosper on its own amid the entertainment industry’s streaming and artificial-intelligence convulsions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
There's this much reported case of a woman who suffered from convulsions after taking a medicine for diabetes which had a similar sounding name to an analgesic she had been prescribed.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
His every resource as a pilot now came into play as he held the stick that fought the convulsions of a maimed craft shuddering downward like a kind of ruin.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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