twinge
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It has been a mixed season for Hodgkinson, who had to pull out of the 400m final at the UK Athletics Championships last month after feeling "a little twinge".
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Feel a twinge of embarrassment looking at some of the outfits the teams are being forced to wear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
“The real challenge from a public health perspective is, how do you recognize when your little twinge of loneliness, which everyone has from time to time, starts to spiral out of control?”
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024
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 feel a twinge just above my kneecap, but it only lasts a second.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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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
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
“Now, whenever they experience the common aches, pains and twinges of life, they wonder if it is because they have this ‘disease,’” Dr. Redberg said.
From New York Times ● May 30, 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
Can’t straighten up without feeling sudden pains, sharp aches, and twinges?
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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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
One second, Hill is schooling the listeners on why Black people "always be the ones to settle" in a religiously twinged "Forgive Them Father" or criticizing the counterfeit encrusted shine attached to fame in "Superstar."
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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Later, when gout got to twinging him, he contented himself with cards and cronies.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists by Elbert Hubbard
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 George Colman
Thus, the dyspeptic over loading his stomach is plunged into the horrid hell of nightmare: the gourmand, pampering himself with a diet of spiced meats and Burgundy, shrieks from the twinging hell of gout.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
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 Richard Aumerle Maher
They both got up and looked at a couple of the hornets twinging on the ground as they died.
From Scorched Earth by Walter D. Petrovic
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