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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

Her adrenaline gives her face a twinge of color, her cheeks a bright, exhilarated pink.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

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

Mrs Glancey said she had felt "a little bit uncomfortable" on Christmas Eve, "but I just thought they were normal twinges".

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2022

Very early in the morning on July 4, 1998, I felt the first twinges of labor.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

On this particular day, I sang for Nancy, while her coral-painted lips twinged in agitation.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2022

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

Thai forcome me in daie of twinging, And made es Layered mi forhiling.

From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat

Mrs. Eyrecourt's little twinging eyes suddenly became still and steady.

From The Black Robe by Wilkie Collins

The girl hurried on, twinging far to the right through the grass.

From The Call of the North by Stewart Edward White

"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 Grace Livingston Hill

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