nerve
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Dottin then whacked back-to-back fours to keep her side in contention but Nicola Carey held her nerve with six needed off the final ball and Spirit finished 119-8.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
If it’s touching a nerve that’s unintended, address it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Two plants capable of causing nerve damage and paralysis at extremely low doses may also contain compounds with valuable uses against pain, malaria, cancer, and agricultural pests.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Jesse Jerger, a concrete worker in Fargo, fractured his elbow and suffered permanent nerve damage when he fell off a wall during a construction job in 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
He’d gotten as far as digging out an extra Shabbat candle and lighting it, but at the last minute lost his nerve.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
That has frayed nerves more than once in the area.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
The team examined where these cells appear in the body, how they function, and how they connect with other tissues and nerves.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
She said she would be working on calming her pre-match nerves as much as improving her swing.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
And he beat back the nerves by never giving them time to eat at him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
If only I had something to calm my somersaulting 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
Nailer nerved himself up and called after the man.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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
The Parson was nerving himself for the meeting, but would not allow that he was in the least degree afraid.
From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew
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