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But just months after this career highlight, symptoms Dan thought were sciatic nerve pain and wear and tear were revealed to be benign tumours in his spine, which needed to be operated on immediately.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Eventually, MS can cause permanent damage to the nerve fibers, and symptoms vary from person to person, depending on the location and severity of the damage in the nervous system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

They are frequently used in optogenetics, a technique in which specific nerve cells are activated using light.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

To his surprise, the video struck a nerve, and before long Mawarire was leading a protest movement of 12 million people.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

Those last words seem to touch a nerve, and Papá says, “Hijica, be careful.”

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

Arnold suspected that another problem might be occurring at the connection between those nerves and muscles.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

W. David Arnold, executive director of the NextGen Precision Health initiative, and his collaborators found that communication between nerves and muscles becomes less reliable as people age.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

"If we talk about nerves, yes, but it's a positive nervousness," he told BBC Sport Scotland.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The U.S. dollar was more or less flat as traders’ inflation nerves were eased by the Fed policy statement and oil’s slippage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Gran gave the appropriate head nods and “uh-huhs” whenever I paused to take in a breath and calm my jittery nerves.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

“He can get a little nerved up in the paddock,” said Shirreffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2021

Then followed a few scruffy years on local TV, including his celebrated stint as a smart-aleck weatherman, before he nerved himself to head to Los Angeles in 1975.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2017

Less a teen-age Rangerphile than an arachnophobe encountering a tarantula, I nerved myself to walk over to where Lindsay sat and confronted him, boy to man.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 19, 2015

Her father, a Texas oil engineer who had nerved himself to attend only at the last minute, cheered wildly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fear lest he depart while she sat trembling upstairs nerved her and she was inside the room before she caught her breath.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

As the story starts, the singer is nerving herself to ask a doctor whether or not she has a cancer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Amateur championships nerving himself up to proper pitch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week, in the salty little city of Bath, Me., the moment lor which Mrs. Vanderbilt had been nerving herself finally arrived.

From Time Magazine Archive

She stood outside nerving herself for the ordeal, knowing her desk would be the only one without flowers.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Well, our compact,” she went on, in an altered voice, as if nerving herself for an effort.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford