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prickle

[prik-uhl] / ˈprɪk əl /


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“It made the back of my neck prickle from its first pages, and that feeling never went away,” wrote New York Times reviewer Dwight Garner.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2022

As he signed in, the 30-year-old felt a prickle of hope.

From Washington Post • May 7, 2022

Others will remain to prickle your conscience and your politics; the premise almost seems designed to make you squirm.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2021

The thin howling of the wind, the prickle of stars in the dark heavens.

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2018

I turned and looked back the way I’d come: a prickle of marble spires, dim mausoleums, pale in the growing darkness.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt




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