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
Ronaldo suffered a convulsion earlier in the day but was given the green light to start for Mario Zagallo's side.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 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
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
Symptoms of bird flu in mammals include tremors, convulsions, seizures and muscle weakness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 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
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
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
Despite all the convulsions of history, the Onondaga have kept the council fire burning for Haudenosaunee to this day.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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