twitch
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For decades, encountering such a scene, I used to stop, then wait to see a leg twitch, a chest rise.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
“Even the smallest twitch is causing wild swings in all corners of the market,” he added.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
Over time, their muscles developed more slow twitch fibers, which are linked to greater endurance.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 9, 2026
The 25-year-old tech engineer has been coached by his cousin, coaxing the kite higher and higher with a twitch of the string.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
Not a frown, exactly, but a slight tightening of the features, a twitch and a tic.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
Mice receiving 4e showed significantly fewer head twitches, which scientists use as a reliable indicator of psychedelic-like activity in rodents, than mice treated with psilocybin.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2026
By subconsciously mirroring even the subtlest twitches of expression and biological rhythms of other people, we can channel their thoughts and feelings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
There were cases of dementia, weight loss, unsteadiness, jerking movements and facial twitches.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026
His nose twitches are as dramatic as an ingenue’s gasp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
Three kids fall dead asleep, eye twitches, snores, and everything.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
As the hours went on, Spiderman twitched less.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 29, 2023
The rear twitched through the long right-hander at Turn Seven; Leclerc caught it but could not stop the car nosing into the barriers.
From BBC ● May 5, 2023
When they sat together for polite exchanges through translators, greeting each other as "dear friend", Mahler said Putin had slouched, twitched his leg, clenched his fist and looked at the floor, suggesting underlying agitation.
From Reuters ● Mar. 21, 2023
When the doctor tapped the Achilles’ tendon on her right leg, the foot twitched in the expected response.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
A muscle twitched under his jawbone on the left side of his face.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
“I’ve watched hundreds of videos get trashed because Roco’s eye was twitching wrong or his jaw wasn’t clenching or the camera didn’t go all the way to the right,” said Alimzhanov.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Someone might have blepharospasms, a dystonia affecting the muscles around the eyes, which results in uncontrollable twitching and blinking.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
And right now, with the yield curve doing interpretive dance and credit spreads twitching like a politician’s eye during a deposition, banks have decided that the most profitable thing they can do is absolutely nothing.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 5, 2025
FND Action said the brain network disorder encompassed neurological symptoms including limb weakness, paralysis, seizures, walking difficulties, spasms, twitching, sensory issues and more.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025
She couldn’t read the kanji, and her leg started twitching impatiently.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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