convulsive
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John Simpson of the BBC noted recently that “there are years when the world goes through some fundamental, convulsive change.”
From Salon • Mar. 5, 2025
Just occasionally, there are years when the world goes through some fundamental, convulsive change.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2025
Continuous monitoring of child deaths and improvements in health records to track how often these convulsive seizures precede death, he explains, will be needed for this to be confirmed.
From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2024
"Such crises are resolved through understanding and reliance on rationality, away from the language of emotion and convulsive populist statements that only produce more crises and tension", Sudani was quoted as telling his cabinet.
From Reuters • Sep. 26, 2023
The convulsive force was so great that the water rushed out of the city’s harbor and returned in a wave fifty feet high, adding to the destruction.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
