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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

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

When state lawmakers gathered this past week to fight about guns, they ended up going off on a jag about something else entirely:

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2023

Twice Robinson got the ball to jag back from outside off stump, first to have Wiaan Mulder chop on, then for Khaya Zondo to be pinned leg before not knowing whether to play or leave.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2022

For several days she was on a laughing jag.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

He was nicknamed "two jags" by the press after it emerged he had two Jaguar cars.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

There are jags of tears and “what ifs” even when you aren’t forced to place a child for adoption.

From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2021

So were the postgame crying jags and all the talk about having the best kids you could possibly coach — win or lose.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021

Her histrionics upon confessing what she’d done, and her subsequent crying jags, are not indicators of sincere remorse and preparedness to change, but additional manipulative tactics designed to sidestep the consequence of her actions.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2020

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

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Tied to the mast of his ship as he and his crew pass the singing sirens, adorned on the jagged rocks at sea, Odysseus screams out with pain and desire.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Just civilian volunteers burrowing through the jagged piles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

A small, goggle-eyed creature with pointy ears and a mouthful of jagged teeth has somehow become one of the defining consumer products this decade.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

The jagged course of the Dormition Cathedral’s own history tracks Ukraine’s brutal fight for independence since it was first built nearly 1,000 years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Kicking off the jagged glass still clinging to the front window, I shimmied inside.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

Deep hammered a consistent length and got the ball jagging back into the right-handers.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2024

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