convulsive

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Just occasionally, there are years when the world goes through some fundamental, convulsive change.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2025

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

I would maintain that this convulsive era came to an end the following year, when a civil jury in Santa Monica found Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2023

The convulsive force was so great that the water rushed out of the city’s harbor and returned in a wave fifty feet high, adding to the destruction.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson