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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 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

Sitting in a tattoo studio chair and feeling the ongoing prick of the needle for up to seven hours is a repetitive, almost meditative act that helps ground her in the present moment, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025

I prick my finger and let the blood race up the little handle.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

"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

And when a final showdown arrives — several women and girls chirping out an animalistic warning — the hair on the back of your neck pricks up.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2024

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

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

Jealousy pricks at my skin as Brother Lekan takes the wooden hilt—now devoid of light—from Lesedi and offers an approving nod.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

I was more nervous about opening up my medical records to a chatbot than getting my arm pricked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 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

Angela reflects: "Kendall said, mum when you look at the times she was taking money, she was sitting in the office transferring money while I was sitting across from her. Her conscience wasn't pricked then'."

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2024

The horses, in their stalls in the barn, pricked up their ears when they heard the goose hollering; and soon the horses had caught on to what was happening.

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White

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

"You're pricking pomposity and you're exposing hypocrisy. That's the point of satire."

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 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

Licking his chops he walked up the steps, lifted a bold demanding paw and scratched at the door, then sat down, pricking his ears expectantly.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford