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[jur-kee] / ˈdʒɜr ki /


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To boost revenues she also sells pantry items such as granola, rice, soft drinks and beef jerky, all from independent producers.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2026

Designed to lower auto emissions by temporarily shutting off the engine while the brake is engaged, it also makes driving feel unnatural, jerky and unenjoyable, Donio and his fellow stop-start haters argue.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

Dried mango that tears like jerky between your teeth.

From Salon Mar. 9, 2026

When I first came to Park City, Utah, in 2010, I barely left the Holiday other than to sprint to the grocery store next door for beef jerky and sushi.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 31, 2026

“But move very slowly, okay? Bees are myopic. Anything large and still looks blurred to them; anything quick or jerky gets their attention.”

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

I’d never see it without having the faster refresh rate to compare it to, but motion looks jerkier and it gives the phone a less than polished feel.

From The Verge Jul. 21, 2022

Jerk score: I’ll give Michael Andrew 2.5 out of 3 on style, because it would have been jerkier to go on Justice with Judge Jeanine and boast about not getting the vaccine.

From Slate Jul. 31, 2021

Just when you’re lulled, for a moment, by the hum, you’re jarred by the vicious reality of the act, as the sound abruptly turns “grittier, jerkier, coarser.”

From Washington Post Nov. 2, 2020

“We clearly are a little jerkier than we would like,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 28, 2015

It was more vigorous and more staccato and jerkier.

From The Loudwater Mystery by Jepson, Edgar

Being the human embodiment of the casual disrespect that mixed doubles has long received in the tennis community is perhaps the jerkiest thing of all.

From Slate Aug. 2, 2021

But it’s only a matter of time before the cash-grabbingest jerk in sports succeeds in pulling off the sports world’s jerkiest cash-grabbing maneuver.

From Slate Sep. 4, 2014

That Eagle Child had ridden up to meet the Grizzly was in itself a fair promise for excitement, but also his Cayuse was one of the jerkiest brutes ever ridden by anybody.

From The Sa'-Zada Tales by Fraser, William Alexander

He who must justify every act by reflection is condemned to the jerkiest and most hesitant of moral lives.

From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by Fullerton, George Stuart




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