convulsive
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"Kiss me, take my heart, break it again," he sings atop a convulsive electro pulse, as dancers pull him into a transparent "sweat box" that represents the relationship he can't escape.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
All the better to seed the belief that we’re about to experience something dreamy and convulsive.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Continuous monitoring of child deaths and improvements in health records to track how often these convulsive seizures precede death, he explains, will be needed for this to be confirmed.
From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2024
"Such crises are resolved through understanding and reliance on rationality, away from the language of emotion and convulsive populist statements that only produce more crises and tension", Sudani was quoted as telling his cabinet.
From Reuters • Sep. 26, 2023
The old lady was scowling down and snatching up her other packages before Eleanor could reach them, and at last Eleanor rose, smiling in convulsive apology.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
Vocabulary lists containing convulsive
The Diary of Anne Frank
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The Odyssey
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