convulsion
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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
The two doctors claim "the typical observation on video are confirmed loss of consciousness, suspected loss of consciousness, convulsion, tonic posturing, balance disturbance/ataxia and clearly dazed".
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 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
A new surge in oil prices sent stocks lower, extending moves that have rippled through financial markets and threatened to set off convulsions in the world economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
Novo is in convulsions amid a dramatic selloff that started in the middle of last year, the company has recently shed its CEO and all of the independent directors on its board.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 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
Jonathan said in July that his father had been suffering serious convulsions and his mother was "numb" from anaemia and malnutrition.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025
He was taken from the stocks in convulsions which lasted some thirty minutes, when he was conveyed to the hospital.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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