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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

A flurry of such tests that look for multiple cancers with a prick are in various stages of development.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 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

On Tuesday, a week after the prick from the badge, I had an online GP appointment and was given antibiotics for a skin infection.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

“The splinters prick you and it’s hard to breathe, but the peg’s nearly through.”

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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

Resembling a continuous glucose monitor, the device sits on the skin outside the body while the microneedle pricks the skin to sample fluids.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024

Graceffo talked about how her dosage routine had changed from a dozen finger pricks and multiple injections a day to a glucose monitor and pump that continuously measure and administer insulin.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

“Ah! that pricks pride. Well, fetch me your portfolio, if you can vouch for its contents being original; but don’t pass your word unless you are certain: I can recognise patchwork.”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

“She didn’t like being pricked anymore,” said Oskowski, 44, adding that Maddie was happy to stay for a cold-laser treatment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 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

At last, after three pricked fingers, I managed to fill the paper outline with red.

From Slate ● May 28, 2025

In the northwest corner is a dense cactus garden where I scratched and pricked myself too many times playing hide-and-go-seek.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025

Sudden tears pricked her eyes as they always did when she thought about the terribleness of that last night, but Clara was there, laying a chilly hand on Ophie’s shoulder.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

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

It is only then, once you are still, that a now low, whipping wind, riddled with sand begins pricking and abrading your skin and collecting in the pages of your novel; it is intolerable.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025

Blood obtained by pricking a baby’s heel was collected on filter paper and tested for phenylketonuria, a rare metabolic condition that, if untreated, causes intellectual disability.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 13, 2023

Every time he opened them, there was a brightness so dazzling his eyes felt as if needles were pricking them.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin