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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

In these trials, researchers introduce light-sensitive proteins into nerve cells that remain in the retina after the cells that normally detect light – called rods and cones – have been lost.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

"I had to have radiotherapy twice and that's left me with instant early menopause, lymphoedema and nerve damage."

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The left-hander used the combination of a drop shot followed by a lob to break Kartal's serve for a 3-2 lead and held her nerve from there.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

It was a question I’d wondered for years, but never had the nerve or the opportunity to ask.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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

She took a long, loud sip, which shredded Nathan’s nerves.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

“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

Nailer nerved himself up and called after the man.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

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

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

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

Jan stopped; he seemed to be nerving himself to go on with his narration.

From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. II (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various