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The parents of the third child refused a tetanus jag for their daughter, who was bitten by the family dog, because they "disputed the medical science" behind it.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

What Cronenberg has done instead is to concoct a hallucinatory jag about the tortuous process Burroughs went through in creating “Naked Lunch.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

Here’s another one for the “Kendall can’t stand to see his family get bullied” file: When Mencken makes fun of Roman’s crying jag, Kendall immediately shuts that joke down.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2023

For a moment, I wondered whether there might be some new subtlety in nuclear-deterrence strategy, or some strange jag in Russian military thinking, that might rebut my conclusion.

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2023

The sound would jag around in our air for an indecisive second before the balcony’s occupants accepted it and sent their own guffaws to riot with it against the walls of the theater.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

Shell-shocked, he suffered panic attacks and crying jags but seems to have settled down after a sleepover with a friend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025

Just think of poor Ben Platt in the film adaptation of “Dear Evan Hansen”: His crying jags, so potent on the stage, proved unfortunately memeable in the movies.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

Please make sure you get all jags as soon as you can.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2021

He immediately ruled out spasmodic dysphonia and asked Emmons whether she had experienced inappropriate laughing or crying jags.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021

I drew breaths in ragged jags, my heart raced, and my skin burned.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

On better days, she strolled up to it, even hugging its jagged trunk and inhaling the earthy scent to lift her spirits.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Selznick deplored Hitchcock’s “goddamn jigsaw cutting,” the dreamlike, jagged images that create his signature subjectivity, but Webb didn’t mind it at all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

McElwee stitches together the past and present to find new meaning in their seams, a jagged line that runs through time and points toward the future.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

Just civilian volunteers burrowing through the jagged piles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Mom wraps her arms around me, her breathing jagged in my ear.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Another left-hander and another ball jagging down the Lord's slope.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

Gurley finally produced a run of significance, jagging through the Patriots defense for 16 yards a run that would have been run-of-the-mill a few months ago but gave the Rams a glimmer of hope.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2019

We bushwhacked until we came to a series of ditches, eight feet deep or more, jagging this way and that every few yards, sometimes intersecting with other deep, zigzaggy ditches.

From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2014

Bobbing and jagging, the path looks cluttered and wild, but it’s just how molecules move in space.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 28, 2013

The window shuts harder than it should, and now there’s a crack jagging down the pane, a pane so dirty it lets in almost no light at all.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron