convulsion
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The remaining two recordings were triggered by sound or motion, but only one suggested that a muscle convulsion, a sign of seizure, had occurred.
From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2024
The country is almost certainly not on the brink of some new transformative convulsion.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2023
A convulsion has shaken America and many other Western democracies over the past few years.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2022
Ronaldo, it later emerged, had suffered from a convulsion earlier in the day.
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2022
And at the word alone, Will felt a great wave of rage and despair moving outward from a place deep within him, as if his mind were an ocean that some profound convulsion had disturbed.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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