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After surgery, doctors recommended she receive a tetanus jag and a dose of immunoglobulin to provide immediate protection against the potentially fatal infection as she hadn't been vaccinated before.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Since its buying jag began, the company has filed suit in federal court against a group of families the firm purchased property from, seeking $510 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

Or has he been on a crying jag?

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2023

Here’s another one for the “Kendall can’t stand to see his family get bullied” file: When Mencken makes fun of Roman’s crying jag, Kendall immediately shuts that joke down.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2023

For several days she was on a laughing jag.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

We are told that he has frequent crying jags and bouts of insomnia, but we don’t feel his despair.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025

The line bends and twists, jolts and jags.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2022

There are jags of tears and “what ifs” even when you aren’t forced to place a child for adoption.

From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2021

Please make sure you get all jags as soon as you can.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2021

Far beyond the dunes, the blue jags of the Serran Range cut into the horizon.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

She shows me a plastic baby walker with a jagged broken leg and a Christmas Santa mug with no handle.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

At the university, shelves groan with jagged pieces of spines, necks and legs that to an untrained eye resemble battered stones.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

Now, during high marmot season between May and July, blue, green and beige tarps shroud most cars at Mineral King, which sits below jagged Sierra Nevada peaks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

McElwee stitches together the past and present to find new meaning in their seams, a jagged line that runs through time and points toward the future.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

It would have fallen off if not for the jagged black-thread stitching.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Murray, all scampering pace and jagging sidesteps, would be a crowd-pleasing pick.

From BBC ● May 5, 2025

We bushwhacked until we came to a series of ditches, eight feet deep or more, jagging this way and that every few yards, sometimes intersecting with other deep, zigzaggy ditches.

From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2014

Bobbing and jagging, the path looks cluttered and wild, but it’s just how molecules move in space.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 28, 2013

But by the fourth day, as well as the ball swinging nicely, the seam was biting in the dusty surface, jagging disarmingly and consistently.

From The Guardian ● May 19, 2013

The window shuts harder than it should, and now there’s a crack jagging down the pane, a pane so dirty it lets in almost no light at all.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron