jumpiness
Example Sentences
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As for May, I would work with the teacher to keep growing her courage skills, and I would also find a way to continue to keep her “fight or flight” nervous system jumpiness in check.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2023
Einstein objected to the jumpiness, chance elements and other indeterminate aspects of quantum theory, whereas Bohr found these acceptable.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 13, 2017
But it is the jumpiness and the contradictions of Baldwin’s text that play so well in Peck’s movie: film, too, often jumps around and contradicts itself—or reality.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017
The retired Air Force general said he wasn't certain, but the Iraqis' jumpiness was a portent.
From US News ● Jan. 17, 2016
But I knew Uncle Tony wasn't trying to be rude, and that his jumpiness was all about my second-place loss at the meet on Saturday, which, by the way, he wasn't at.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
