nerve

Visual information travels along the optic nerve to a structure called the optic chiasm.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

The youth protests have struck a nerve with the wider public, at a time when Europe is gearing up for a wave of key elections in Spain, France, Italy and Greece over the coming year.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

But it’s important to note that amid the chaos, we’re hearing one throughline: While Wall Street may be losing its nerve over AI, corporate buyers aren’t.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

It helps nerve cells grow, survive, and communicate with one another, supporting memory and other cognitive abilities.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

No way did I have the nerve for that.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Adams calmed the nerves with a turnover penalty as Wales held on.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

And JetBlue Airways executives tried to calm investors’ nerves about its long-term prospects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

That helped steady nerves among investors who have started to question the vast sums pumped into the AI build-out and when they will see returns, with the spike in borrowing costs compounding concerns.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

The SK Hynix results further helped calm investor nerves over the sustainability of spending on memory chips, an issue that has clouded over the broader artificial-intelligence ecosystem in recent weeks.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

“Oh, it was dandy,” I said lightly, although inside my nerves were thrumming.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

“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

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

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

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

Mrs. Timberlake turned slowly toward her, and Caroline was aware of a spasmodic stiffening of her figure, as if she were nerving herself for an outburst.

From The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow