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When experiencing either emotion, everything — be it a piece of news, the prick of a finger, a conversation with a loved one living thousands of miles away — is magnified.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

Still, he concluded the Fed shouldn’t try to prick bubbles with rate increases given uncertain benefits and potentially severe costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Babies can be identified as having SMA through a heel prick test and early treatment can prolong their lives.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

Older participants regained motor strength and sensory abilities, such as feeling light touch or a pin prick, at levels similar to younger individuals.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2026

Balance is everything, riding out time like a helmless sheep-boat, keel to hellward, mast upreared to prick out heaven’s eye.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Aigul Khismatullina, Queen of the Night, impresses with the silvery pricks of her high notes, while Kwangchul Youn’s Sarastro, unsteady in middle register, takes on weight at the bottom of his bass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

"I was on 10 to 15 finger pricks and five or six injections. I actually had a phobia of needles, so it wasn't a good start."

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026

But they also rely on uncomfortable procedures, ranging from collecting small blood samples through frequent finger pricks to blood draws from a trained phlebotomist.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2023

You could consider getting one shot in each arm if you want to avoid the discomfort of two needle pricks in the same arm.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2023

Bob pricks his ears and joins me by the window.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

Indonesian villager Octavius wades through the forest in rubber boots and tattered joggers, ears pricked, eyes peeled, a telephoto lens on his phone primed to capture orangutans, monkeys or birds.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

In a story in “Ladies’ Lunch,” an old woman, disheveled after an outing, looks in a mirror and sees “what Diane Arbus might have seen. She gazed, appalled, and being appalled pricked her interest.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

People blaze a trail so that other people can walk down it without getting pricked by thorns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2025

Please bleed more, I thought, looking at my pricked finger.

From Slate ● May 28, 2025

Rashid’s words pricked at him like the splinters in the board he held in his hands.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau

Lisandra's nine-year-old daughter set off for school that morning with nothing in her stomach, she explains, tears pricking her eyes.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

That’s where it started when I was pricking that bubble of comedians who think they’re changing the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025

The authors found that the three variants were associated with a lower pain threshold in response to skin pricking after prior exposure to mustard oil, but not in response to heat or pressure.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2023

The current gold standard test—only conducted in specialized allergy clinics—involves pricking the skin and injecting a small amount of penicillin.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2023

Every drop was cold as ice: hard little shards pricking at her skin.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo