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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

“Intruders have set fires, burning holes in the floors and scorching wood wainscoting and pews. Empty beef jerky bags, discarded underwear and clumps of plaster litter the worn burgundy carpeting.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

The Iceland location might sell fish jerky, but the concrete floors, rotisserie chickens and stacks of Kirkland jeans scream Americana.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

The smoke Bitter had painted around it was as dense as clouds, and Jam thought she could see it move, a jerky tendril here and there.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

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

Jerk score: I’ll give Michael Andrew 2.5 out of 3 on style, because it would have been jerkier to go on Justice with Judge Jeanine and boast about not getting the vaccine.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2021

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2015

In California the ride is smooth and pitch black inside, while the jerkier Orlando version isn’t quite as dark inside, inadvertently allowing you to see parts of the track.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2014

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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