convulsions

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A new surge in oil prices sent stocks lower, extending moves that have rippled through financial markets and threatened to set off convulsions in the world economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

While experts predict modest employment numbers, disappointing data could send the market back into convulsions.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 8, 2026

Novo is in convulsions amid a dramatic selloff that started in the middle of last year, the company has recently shed its CEO and all of the independent directors on its board.

From Barron's • Nov. 3, 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

A steady flow of men and women from East Bengal—those who had sensed the early political convulsions before their neighbors—had already started to fill the low-rises and tenements near Sealdah station.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee