nerve
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In Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies, tau proteins begin accumulating inside nerve cells.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
They are building the nerve center of Abu Dhabi’s AI efforts, set to be packed with the latest U.S. chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Or a vagus nerve stimulator from Truvaga for $499.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
After 10 weeks of training, rats that exercised had about four times as many neurons in the cardiovascular nerve cluster on the right side of the body compared with the left, relative to untrained animals.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
I’ve never known another commoner who had the nerve to do that.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
“My nerves are all over the place,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
“I could almost see within my teammates a bit of nerves, because it’s something that is so unique,” Balogun said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
There is some evidence that Netflix is shedding subscribers, or at least getting on their nerves.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Beyond improving cardiovascular fitness, new research suggests that moderate aerobic exercise reshapes the nerves that regulate the heart.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
They approached the palace slowly, their nerves on guard.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
“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
After greeting old shutterbug pals, Tony nerved himself up to his first speech as a representative of the royal family.
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
As the story starts, the singer is nerving herself to ask a doctor whether or not she has a cancer.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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