twinge

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

I nodded, but felt a twinge of insecurity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026

But, intentional or not, contained within his September critique was a twinge of doubt about the viability of a defence-first mantra in the modern age.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 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

I’d had an earache for two days, and during the night it had changed from a dull twinge to a constant sharp stab.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

He said he had twinges in his ribs and back for a year and a half before his diagnosis, but initially put them down to playing a lot of golf.

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

Some Hitler Youth had twinges of conscience over the treatment of the Jews.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

That day Eoin Morgan went in the back, Jason Roy twinged a hamstring, Chris Woakes batted at number three and England still won by eight wickets with 16.5 overs to spare.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025

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

I wanted desperately to stay like this, but along with the glow in my chest, guilt twinged.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2017

It was repetitive work; the muscles in his arms and lower back twinged as he stooped over and over to pass off refilled buckets and pick up empty ones.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

The weak and exquisite sweetness of her smile, as she lay in bed under the stress of twinging pain amid hot-water bottles, was amazing to Sophia.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

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

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 Harold Bindloss

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 Charles Alden Seltzer

The corporal was watching him with hungry eyes and a stupid expression on his face; his stomach was also twinging him.

From The Downfall by E. P. Robins