twinge
Example Sentences
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Looking over the constant turmoil that Patel has created around himself, it’s hard to not feel a twinge of sympathy.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
When we are out of sync, he says, we experience it as a kind of judder or twinge of social discomfort which “is your brain working a little harder to fix predictions that are wrong.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
I nodded, but felt a twinge of insecurity.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026
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
She felt a strange twinge of cold run up and down her spine.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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