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jerky

[jur-kee] / ˈdʒɜr ki /


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To boost revenues she also sells pantry items such as granola, rice, soft drinks and beef jerky, all from independent producers.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

Dried mango that tears like jerky between your teeth.

From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2026

Rogan is hard to pin down on the jerky question.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026

He got off to a jerky start, with an eagle at the first followed by a double bogey at the fourth.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

With a jerky motion he moves a hand to his stomach; his fingertips graze mine.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

I’d never see it without having the faster refresh rate to compare it to, but motion looks jerkier and it gives the phone a less than polished feel.

From The Verge ● Jul. 21, 2022

These actions were rendered all the jerkier by the context in which they happened.

From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2021

Just when you’re lulled, for a moment, by the hum, you’re jarred by the vicious reality of the act, as the sound abruptly turns “grittier, jerkier, coarser.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2020

“We clearly are a little jerkier than we would like,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2015

It was more vigorous and more staccato and jerkier.

From The Loudwater Mystery by Edgar Jepson

Being the human embodiment of the casual disrespect that mixed doubles has long received in the tennis community is perhaps the jerkiest thing of all.

From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2021

But it’s only a matter of time before the cash-grabbingest jerk in sports succeeds in pulling off the sports world’s jerkiest cash-grabbing maneuver.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2014

That Eagle Child had ridden up to meet the Grizzly was in itself a fair promise for excitement, but also his Cayuse was one of the jerkiest brutes ever ridden by anybody.

From The Sa'-Zada Tales by William Alexander Fraser

He who must justify every act by reflection is condemned to the jerkiest and most hesitant of moral lives.

From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton


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