nerve
Example Sentences
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The nerves are evident from spikes in the Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, known as Wall Street’s fear gauge because it measures the price of options that investors tend to buy when expecting stock swings.
On Friday the overwhelming favourite for the men's gold, Ilia Malinin, faltered in the free skate, along with virtually all the top competitors, but Shaidorov held his nerve.
From Barron's
Researchers already understand that nerves can help cancer spread, but what happens in the earliest phases of pancreatic cancer has remained uncertain.
From Science Daily
The researchers found that the most significant gene disruptions occur in excitatory neurons -- the nerve cells that send activating signals -- where nearly 6,000 cause-and-effect interactions revealed extensive genetic rewiring as Alzheimer's progresses.
From Science Daily
It is the organisation's second headquarters after Lyon in France, and houses the Cyber Fusion Centre, a nerve centre for sharing intelligence of online threats among 196 members.
From Barron's
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