sensation
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You would feel a sensation from a glove on your hand, a coat or even a seat cushion that signals something that happened on the field.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Elsewhere Bristol's South African-born centre Benhard Janse van Rensburg and Saracens' teenage wing sensation Noah Caluori made try-scoring Test debuts from the bench.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
False rumors that Benjamin Franklin, en route from France to Philadelphia, had been captured by Barbary pirates caused a sensation.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
It took 90 minutes for Vozinha, Cape Verde's 40-year-old goalkeeper, to become a world-wide sensation with more Instagram followers than NFL legend Tom Brady.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
I felt hopeless, and it was a sensation I wasn’t sure I’d ever felt before.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
As Maxine, an American director who’s traveled to Paris to complete a short film that will play before a high-concept fashion show in the coming days, Jolie elegantly moves between these two sensations.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
In open-awareness meditation, by contrast, you observe your thoughts, sounds or physical sensations coming and going.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
In skin cells, the channel may help trigger itch sensations.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2026
This time, Warner Judd got an answer when she was diagnosed with focal epilepsy, meaning her seizures typically start in one side of the brain and cause unusual feelings, sensations or movements.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
It may well be imagined, the sensations I underwent when he told me, “It is the smallpox.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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