jag

And last autumn only about 50% of health and social are workers came forward for a jag.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2023

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

“Wa—” he began, but then he erupted into a coughing jag that sent the food he couldn’t swallow into Alec’s face.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

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

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

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

Soap operas with all these people with the big hair going on crying jags.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

She shows me a plastic baby walker with a jagged broken leg and a Christmas Santa mug with no handle.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

And then follows “Always and a Day,” an outright love song, but the sound is jagged, pounding rock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

The title character disdains the common folk, and the play’s complicated political discussion and harsh, jagged poetry aren’t what most picnicking playgoers are after.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Sunlight streamed down through a jagged hole in the roof of the shed.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

A dazzling runner, with a jagging step and sharp acceleration, fewer than 30 of his 72 All Blacks caps have come as a starter.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025

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

Morkel follows up with beautiful ball jagging away from Cook.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2012

He’d gone a little different with the Mohawk too, buzzing it close to his scalp and jagging it so it looked like a thunderbolt.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin