nerve
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Neuroregeneration refers to the repair, renewal, or regrowth of nerve cells and their connections.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
No wonder the last Tax Report hit a nerve with readers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Jefferis' team and collaborators painstakingly analysed every nerve cell, every wire and every connection in a male fruit fly.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Shenanigan and her crew must use all their wit, nerve and cunning they possess to discover a killer in a world where everyone, it seems, is running her own con.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The red soil has the nerve to be slippery, making it hard to stop or turn when we need to.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
The U.A.E. has tried to calm the nerves of its business community, with high-ranking Emirati officials, who typically maintain a low public profile, meeting with investors and entrepreneurs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
But even I still get nervous sometimes when asking for a deal, feeling like I have to physically swallow my nerves just to spit the words out.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
As the rocket rumbled along the Space Coast, nerves turned into catharsis for JPL scientists and engineers looking on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
That raises the possibility that researchers could one day investigate similar drugs as treatments for injuries involving peripheral nerves or the spinal cord.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
Her nerves wouldn’t let her sleep, so she decided to tell Mother a story.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
“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
“I needed some fresh air,” I tell him, which is indicative of how nerved up I am.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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
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
"You see, he's a——" She seemed to be nerving herself to speak.
From Men, Women and Guns by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
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