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jerky

[jur-kee] / ˈdʒɜr ki /


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To boost revenues she also sells pantry items such as granola, rice, soft drinks and beef jerky, all from independent producers.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

The aim is to be bustlingly kinetic, but the feel is pure kindergarten: no logic, just jerky leaps from one gaming situation to the next, with characters and objects taking on whatever powers are needed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

He got off to a jerky start, with an eagle at the first followed by a double bogey at the fourth.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

Before long, I had been party to conversations about fear of flying, doctors in Tijuana, how to make beef jerky and how to sleep in a moving metal box.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

Mrs. Caruthers released the blankets and dragged herself out of the bed, her movements jerky and erratic, like they’d been the day Ophie had looked in the closet.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

I’d never see it without having the faster refresh rate to compare it to, but motion looks jerkier and it gives the phone a less than polished feel.

From The Verge ● Jul. 21, 2022

Symbolically throwing your mixed doubles’ partner’s racket into the stands is another, much jerkier thing.

From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2021

Just when you’re lulled, for a moment, by the hum, you’re jarred by the vicious reality of the act, as the sound abruptly turns “grittier, jerkier, coarser.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2020

“We clearly are a little jerkier than we would like,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2015

It was more vigorous and more staccato and jerkier.

From The Loudwater Mystery by Edgar Jepson

Being the human embodiment of the casual disrespect that mixed doubles has long received in the tennis community is perhaps the jerkiest thing of all.

From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2021

But it’s only a matter of time before the cash-grabbingest jerk in sports succeeds in pulling off the sports world’s jerkiest cash-grabbing maneuver.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2014

He who must justify every act by reflection is condemned to the jerkiest and most hesitant of moral lives.

From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton

That Eagle Child had ridden up to meet the Grizzly was in itself a fair promise for excitement, but also his Cayuse was one of the jerkiest brutes ever ridden by anybody.

From The Sa'-Zada Tales by William Alexander Fraser




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