nerve
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Or a vagus nerve stimulator from Truvaga for $499.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
They are building the nerve center of Abu Dhabi’s AI efforts, set to be packed with the latest U.S. chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Using advanced three-dimensional imaging techniques known as stereology, the team examined how exercise changed nerve clusters that help regulate heart function.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
"Guess the bottom line is…I could keep my focus and nerve all four days to finish it off," he messaged when I asked for the secret sauce.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
I didn’t have the nerve to tell him I rarely attended school.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
“I could almost see within my teammates a bit of nerves, because it’s something that is so unique,” Balogun said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
There is some evidence that Netflix is shedding subscribers, or at least getting on their nerves.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Beyond improving cardiovascular fitness, new research suggests that moderate aerobic exercise reshapes the nerves that regulate the heart.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy is an underdiagnosed and potentially fatal disease of the heart muscle in which a protein called transthyretin builds up in the heart, nerves and other organs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Penelope’s words poured out lickety-split, for now that the big moment had arrived, she too was overcome with nerves.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
“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
This means that what is probable changes over time; but Locke never nerved himself up to take the further step of saying that knowledge itself changes over time.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Amateur championships nerving himself up to proper pitch.
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
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
He had been nerving himself for just this crisis, and his muscles were ready primed for a quick leap.
From Woodcraft or, How a Patrol Leader Made Good by Douglas, Alan
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