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[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

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

Designed to lower auto emissions by temporarily shutting off the engine while the brake is engaged, it also makes driving feel unnatural, jerky and unenjoyable, Donio and his fellow stop-start haters argue.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 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

Kareem reaches into his Renegades bag and takes out his beef jerky.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

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

Symbolically throwing your mixed doubles’ partner’s racket into the stands is another, much jerkier thing.

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

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

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




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