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convulsion

[kuhn-vuhl-shuhn] / kənˈvʌl ʃən /




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What they couldn’t know at the time was that a major convulsion was coming for the golf world: LIV’s funding was about to evaporate.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

The remaining two recordings were triggered by sound or motion, but only one suggested that a muscle convulsion, a sign of seizure, had occurred.

From Science Daily Jan. 4, 2024

The country is almost certainly not on the brink of some new transformative convulsion.

From New York Times Mar. 24, 2023

"Jerry Lee Lewis slaughters his rivals," it said, "in a 13-song set that feels like one long convulsion".

From BBC Oct. 28, 2022

Then I rose up on my curtainless bed, trembling and quivering; and then the still, dark night witnessed the convulsion of despair, and heard the burst of passion.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Symptoms of bird flu in mammals include tremors, convulsions, seizures and muscle weakness.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 12, 2026

In a coffee shop in Greenland's capital Nuuk, Lykke Lynge looked fondly at her four kids as they sipped their hot chocolate, seemingly oblivious to the world's convulsions.

From Barron's Jan. 25, 2026

The back end of Mr. Bird’s book is a romp through the real-estate convulsions of Asia and the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 31, 2025

Jonathan said in July that his father had been suffering serious convulsions and his mother was "numb" from anaemia and malnutrition.

From BBC Sep. 20, 2025

Hawks and owls have been found in convulsions — great horned owls, screech owls, red-shouldered hawks, sparrow hawks, marsh hawks.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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