twinge
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BBC's commentary team later received a message from Hodgkinson's coach Jenny Meadows, saying she withdrew as she "felt a little twinge in her last strides before the race".
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 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
And unlike other medical shows, most of the ailments are so bizarre that you won’t have to worry if that cough or twinge is a sign that you’re getting one of them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 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
Was there a twinge of sadness in his eyes?
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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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
Full of jovial bluster, Fisher’s Ali occasionally breaks his facade to reveal pangs of empathy and twinges of insecurity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
Or I could prevent twinges in my body in places where I never even knew I had places.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2022
As the weeks lengthened into months of captivity, the men could not help feeling twinges of despair.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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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
In her wordsmith-like rhythms and reggae and neo-soul twinged beats, she answered them wittly, standing proudly in her Black womanhood.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 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
My ears twinged at the sound of my home but not enough to pull me all the way out of my quiet.
From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart
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"Where is Buck?" demanded Michael with a sudden twinging of his heart strings that seemed to bring back the old love and loyalty to his friend.
From Lo, Michael! by Hill, Grace Livingston
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
When the last twinging tremour had run through the racked body, she leaned over and kissed her father full on the lips.
From The Shepherd of the North by Maher, Richard Aumerle
Austin had swung through a waltz with Jacinta, though the guitars were still twinging softly when they climbed the ladder to the bridge-deck, where canvas chairs were laid out.
From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold
I wish we were at home, and I was comfortably laid up in our damp garret, with a fine twinging fit of the rheumatism.
From The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts by Colman, George
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