nerve

The artists’ perspective, filtered through a Gen Z lens, struck a multigenerational nerve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Neurodegenerative diseases involve the progressive deterioration of nerve cells, as occurs in conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

They used optogenetics to tag the nerve cells in the brain’s memory center that were active during that the fear-conditioning experiment.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

An emotionally complicated dance-pop album about the relationship between power and vulnerability, “Brat” struck a nerve in a weird cultural moment and finally brought Charli the kind of stardom she’d been openly seeking for ages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

No way did I have the nerve for that.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The gathering came during a week when investor nerves over rising borrowing costs and AI labs’ profitability hit semiconductor stocks and the bonds of AI infrastructure providers such as CoreWeave.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The pathological neurovascular environment describes the abnormal interactions between those vessels and pain signaling nerves in the affected tissue.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

It’s audition day at New Jersey’s Brook Arts Center, and everyone is a bundle of nerves.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

Soon, Wolf started performing at open-mic nights in Queens, trying to “psych” herself out of nerves onstage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Auntie North gave Llewelyn chamomile tea to calm his nerves, and he fell asleep before takeoff.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

“He can get a little nerved up in the paddock,” said Shirreffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2021

Then followed a few scruffy years on local TV, including his celebrated stint as a smart-aleck weatherman, before he nerved himself to head to Los Angeles in 1975.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2017

Less a teen-age Rangerphile than an arachnophobe encountering a tarantula, I nerved myself to walk over to where Lindsay sat and confronted him, boy to man.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 19, 2015

For weeks Washington had been on the alert for the Vinson report, nerved itself this week to hear the report go off, dynamiting the profiteers of World War II.

From Time Magazine Archive

This means that what is probable changes over time; but Locke never nerved himself up to take the further step of saying that knowledge itself changes over time.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Last week, in the salty little city of Bath, Me., the moment lor which Mrs. Vanderbilt had been nerving herself finally arrived.

From Time Magazine Archive

Amateur championships nerving himself up to proper pitch.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the story starts, the singer is nerving herself to ask a doctor whether or not she has a cancer.

From Time Magazine Archive

She stood outside nerving herself for the ordeal, knowing her desk would be the only one without flowers.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

There were Aldermen Minwegen and Alderman Badenoch, and besides them scores of men and women anxiously looking and looking, and nerving themselves to fear the worst.

From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various