nerve
Example Sentences
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Her story touched a nerve with readers, many of whom are also hunting for work in a tough job market, while feeling as though their age counts against them.
These findings suggest that the body's ability to recover nerve function after a spinal cord injury remains largely consistent across different age groups.
From Science Daily
If there's one nerve you want to touch in 2026 - it's the vagus nerve.
From BBC
When “Picnic” premiered on Broadway in 1953, it struck a nerve with postwar audiences—particularly women—hungry for a depiction of everyday lives that were not grandiose or heroic, but filled with unspoken desire.
Searle lives with a rare eyesight condition called Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy - which affects vision by causing the optic nerve to become progressively thinner.
From BBC
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