convulsion
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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
The country is almost certainly not on the brink of some new transformative convulsion.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
Even after a second convulsion of 1945, the "great" families survived.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2023
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
He kept hacking into a large checkered handkerchief, and every cough was like a convulsion.
From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
He contracted meningitis as a youth and still suffers from convulsions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
Novo has suffered repeated convulsions amid a dramatic selloff that has sent shares down by more than 60% since the middle of last year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025
She said one prison guard had said Navalny was experiencing convulsions and was breathing heavily and coughing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2025
The pair's son previously told the BBC he feared they would die in prison, cautioning that Peter had suffered serious convulsions and Barbie was "numb" from anaemia and malnutrition.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025
It was Martin’s turn to absent himself while Ethel assumed responsibility for their guest, nursing Cora through two days of fever and convulsions.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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