twinge
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And unlike other medical shows, most of the ailments are so bizarre that you won’t have to worry if that cough or twinge is a sign that you’re getting one of them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
Feel a twinge of embarrassment looking at some of the outfits the teams are being forced to wear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
But, intentional or not, contained within his September critique was a twinge of doubt about the viability of a defence-first mantra in the modern age.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
But I also found comfort in the idea that it was a possibility—and a twinge of anger toward the many gynecologists I had seen who had never mentioned it as one.
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2024
Looking at Wolf waiting patiently, Torak felt a twinge of guilt.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Another factor creating twinges of anxiety in markets has been the recent upward pressure in short-term funding markets, especially as they reared up at the end of October.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2025
He said he had twinges in his ribs and back for a year and a half before his diagnosis, but initially put them down to playing a lot of golf.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
The album oscillates between dance-floor anthems and lyrics about meditation, coruscating synths and twinges of twang.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
Silver’s twinges of disappointment whenever Pumpkin rejects her help give us a sense of the sadness that Corn detected in her when he first admired her walk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
Some Hitler Youth had twinges of conscience over the treatment of the Jews.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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While the run in Qatar was twinged with disbelief, their journey in North America has been infused with purpose.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Intertwined within this main plot, and equally intriguing, are a pair of narratives twinged in history.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
In her wordsmith-like rhythms and reggae and neo-soul twinged beats, she answered them wittly, standing proudly in her Black womanhood.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2023
They also predicted that Balto would have had a double layer of black fur twinged with tan; modern sled dogs tend to have just a single layer.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 26, 2023
It was repetitive work; the muscles in his arms and lower back twinged as he stooped over and over to pass off refilled buckets and pick up empty ones.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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When the last twinging tremour had run through the racked body, she leaned over and kissed her father full on the lips.
From The Shepherd of the North by Richard Aumerle Maher
She still lives simply, and enjoys good health; but she tells me if she tastes flesh meat, it produces a twinging in the breast.
From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
Thus, the dyspeptic over loading his stomach is plunged into the horrid hell of nightmare: the gourmand, pampering himself with a diet of spiced meats and Burgundy, shrieks from the twinging hell of gout.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
The girl hurried on, twinging far to the right through the grass.
From The Call of the North by Stewart Edward White
The corporal was watching him with hungry eyes and a stupid expression on his face; his stomach was also twinging him.
From The Downfall by E. P. Robins
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