jerky
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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
Now, Tesla’s system is smoother and less jerky.
From Barron's ● Dec. 14, 2025
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
The witch motioned to one of the chairs in a long, graceful gesture that made Adelaide’s swan arms look jerky and pained in comparison.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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
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
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
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