nerve
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But just months after this career highlight, symptoms Dan thought were sciatic nerve pain and wear and tear were revealed to be benign tumours in his spine, which needed to be operated on immediately.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
In the animal model, partially blocking ClC-1 improved the ability of aging muscles to react to nerve signals and increased muscle strength.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Eventually, MS can cause permanent damage to the nerve fibers, and symptoms vary from person to person, depending on the location and severity of the damage in the nervous system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
To his surprise, the video struck a nerve, and before long Mawarire was leading a protest movement of 12 million people.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
All complex animals have nerve cells, but no animal has as many nerve cells as humans do.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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Arnold and his colleagues linked the problem to lower levels of a protein known as NaV1.4, which helps muscle fibers respond to signals from nerves.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
W. David Arnold, executive director of the NextGen Precision Health initiative, and his collaborators found that communication between nerves and muscles becomes less reliable as people age.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
“And that changes the nerves or whatever bad mood or the rest of the week.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
The U.S. dollar was more or less flat as traders’ inflation nerves were eased by the Fed policy statement and oil’s slippage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
He waved to us excitedly as the boat docked, and despite the tight coil of nerves in my stomach, I smiled back.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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“He can get a little nerved up in the paddock,” said Shirreffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2021
Then followed a few scruffy years on local TV, including his celebrated stint as a smart-aleck weatherman, before he nerved himself to head to Los Angeles in 1975.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2017
Less a teen-age Rangerphile than an arachnophobe encountering a tarantula, I nerved myself to walk over to where Lindsay sat and confronted him, boy to man.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 19, 2015
After greeting old shutterbug pals, Tony nerved himself up to his first speech as a representative of the royal family.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Fear lest he depart while she sat trembling upstairs nerved her and she was inside the room before she caught her breath.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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Last week, in the salty little city of Bath, Me., the moment lor which Mrs. Vanderbilt had been nerving herself finally arrived.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Amateur championships nerving himself up to proper pitch.
From Time Magazine Archive
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As the story starts, the singer is nerving herself to ask a doctor whether or not she has a cancer.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She stood outside nerving herself for the ordeal, knowing her desk would be the only one without flowers.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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So, nerving herself for the ordeal, she went down to dinner the next day in anything but a happy frame of mind.
From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Lucy Foster Madison
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