convulsion
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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
A convulsion has shaken America and many other Western democracies over the past few years.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2022
"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
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