nerve-racking

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The product offers clinicians an easy way to learn without having to practice on patients already undergoing nerve-racking procedures.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2026

Former winner Shaun Murphy believed taking his driving test was "the most nerve-racking moment of my life".

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

“And as nerve-racking as it may be to take that big swing, you gotta take the big swing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

While essentially a disaster film, the visually alarming and nerve-racking “Fukushima” is also a cross-cultural psychodrama, about an industry, and perhaps a society, having a meltdown all its own.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

“I wonder,” Theodora said to Eleanor as they left the lunch table under Mrs. Dudley’s watchful eye, “why everything has been so quiet. I think this waiting is nerve-racking, almost worse than having something happen.”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson