nerve
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Synapses are the tiny junctions through which nerve cells communicate.
From Science Daily ● 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
Why has Clancy’s case struck such a nerve?
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Deep inside the brain, a small group of nerve cells helps control how strongly pain signals are felt.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Ekon spoke again before he could lose his nerve.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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
Now, for the first time, it is Andy Burnham's turn to feel those nerves.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Your bank account will thank you after you push past the initial nerves and make the ask.
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
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
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
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
As the story starts, the singer is nerving herself to ask a doctor whether or not she has a cancer.
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
He had been nerving himself for just this crisis, and his muscles were ready primed for a quick leap.
From Woodcraft or, How a Patrol Leader Made Good by Alan Douglas
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