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A tearful Keely Hodgkinson pulled out of the 400m final at the UK Athletics Championships moments before Sunday's race after feeling "a little twinge".

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

Looking over the constant turmoil that Patel has created around himself, it’s hard to not feel a twinge of sympathy.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026

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 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

I felt a twinge of guilt when I thought of Cem and the other firefighters.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

Another factor creating twinges of anxiety in markets has been the recent upward pressure in short-term funding markets, especially as they reared up at the end of October.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2025

When the pain got worse in the middle of 2020, he consulted his GP who told him he had likely pulled a muscle and that the twinges would sort themselves out.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

The album oscillates between dance-floor anthems and lyrics about meditation, coruscating synths and twinges of twang.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022

Silver’s twinges of disappointment whenever Pumpkin rejects her help give us a sense of the sadness that Corn detected in her when he first admired her walk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2021

Very early in the morning on July 4, 1998, I felt the first twinges of labor.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

While the run in Qatar was twinged with disbelief, their journey in North America has been infused with purpose.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Intertwined within this main plot, and equally intriguing, are a pair of narratives twinged in history.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

They also predicted that Balto would have had a double layer of black fur twinged with tan; modern sled dogs tend to have just a single layer.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 26, 2023

On this particular day, I sang for Nancy, while her coral-painted lips twinged in agitation.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2022

Heaving, breathing in and out, each breath twinged with a high-pitched wheeze.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

They both got up and looked at a couple of the hornets twinging on the ground as they died.

From Scorched Earth by Petrovic, Walter D.

The girl hurried on, twinging far to the right through the grass.

From The Call of the North by White, Stewart Edward

His own character being immune to the little twinging impulses of humanness that grow to generous and unselfish deeds, he had looked with derision upon all persons who betrayed concern for their fellow-men.

From The Ranchman by Seltzer, Charles Alden

He smiled, with a twinging undercurrent of regret that not even in impendent death did he find any stimulus to the heroical.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch

Maurice, who began to feel a twinging sensation in his stomach, uttered a regretful cry: "If I had known of this I would have bought some bread at Chene."

From The Downfall by Robins, E. P.