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jerky

[jur-kee] / ˈdʒɜr ki /


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It bills its more than 50 locations in 13 states as “highway oases,” and has plans to open more outposts offering its jerky, fudge and dizzying array of beaver-themed products.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

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

But certain items that currently meet the requirements, such as beef jerky for protein or butter for dairy, no longer will.

From Salon May 22, 2026

Now, Tesla’s system is smoother and less jerky.

From Barron's Dec. 14, 2025

My foot made jerky motions as it pushed down, but soon the wheel spun with a familiar rhythm, like a song sung to me in the cradle.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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

I’ll give them 2 out of 3 for technical merit, because it would have been jerkier to say that the Olympics would only proceed if Tokyo were under a state of emergency.

From Slate Jul. 24, 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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