nerve
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The researchers focused on a group of nerve cells called Layer 5 pyramidal neurons.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
Visual information travels along the optic nerve to a structure called the optic chiasm.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
Fernandes kept his nerve to drive home his second attempt and then, in a frenzied atmosphere, Matheus Cunha scored twice in the final seven minutes.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
The youth protests have struck a nerve with the wider public, at a time when Europe is gearing up for a wave of key elections in Spain, France, Italy and Greece over the coming year.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Those last words seem to touch a nerve, and Papá says, “Hijica, be careful.”
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
U.S. stocks were mixed as strong jobs data and a modest rebound for artificial-intelligence companies failed to quell investor nerves about the sustainability of the AI boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
To ease nerves about giving large amounts of money while you’re still alive, dig into the numbers.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
That helped steady nerves among investors who have started to question the vast sums pumped into the AI build-out and when they will see returns, with the spike in borrowing costs compounding concerns.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
Multiple sclerosis is a disease that affects nerves in the brain and spinal cord.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Instead of butterflies, Danny’s nerves felt like frogs jumping inside.
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
Her father, a Texas oil engineer who had nerved himself to attend only at the last minute, cheered wildly.
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
As the story starts, the singer is nerving herself to ask a doctor whether or not she has a cancer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Amateur championships nerving himself up to proper pitch.
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
Her trembling heart had forgotten for the moment all she had been braving her heart, and nerving her mind to tell him.
From It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) by Mrs. Henry Wood
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