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convulsion

[kuhn-vuhl-shuhn] / kənˈvʌl ʃən /




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Despite suffering from a convulsion hours before the final.

From BBC • May 21, 2025

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

“There has been a convulsion in the earth,” the priest said.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman




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