twinge
Example Sentences
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When we are out of sync, he says, we experience it as a kind of judder or twinge of social discomfort which “is your brain working a little harder to fix predictions that are wrong.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
But, intentional or not, contained within his September critique was a twinge of doubt about the viability of a defence-first mantra in the modern age.
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025
But I also found comfort in the idea that it was a possibility—and a twinge of anger toward the many gynecologists I had seen who had never mentioned it as one.
From Slate • Aug. 23, 2024
Vance may have refused to engage with her mental health, but at least a twinge of his love for her shone through in the book.
From Salon • Jul. 20, 2024
Aureliano Segundo felt a twinge of conscience when he saw Meme’s state of prostration and he promised himself to take better care of her in the future.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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