twitchy
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One risk belongs in every model: High-torque actuators depend on rare-earth magnets, and China controls roughly 90% of magnet processing, a chokepoint that recent export-licensing changes have already made twitchy.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
"There are lots of avalanche stories on our social media, so we're just feeling a bit twitchy," admits Bella.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
Soon after, twitchy soldiers defending Los Angeles unleashed a barrage of antiaircraft fire at what was later suspected to be a stray weather balloon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
“I feel twitchy again, you know, I just feel good.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025
That was a complete bluff, but Elliot was too twitchy to notice.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
It’s always interesting because players are now — and this is not up for debate — bigger, faster, stronger, more athletic, twitchier, have more technology, more tools at their fingertips.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2020
And probably jeopardize the whole relationship during a time that most people are already running twitchier than usual.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2020
He’s still working with his trademark dewdrop synth melodies, but this song is twitchier and more anxious than any of his other recent work.
From The Verge ● May 6, 2016
The Servotronic steering grows progressively heavier and twitchier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2015
They favored a twitchier free-form interplay, full of jackhammered clusters and rattling cowbells, with Mr. Mitchell blowing gales through his sopranino saxophone.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2015
So what does Paterno – the man behind the twitchiest stock-playing game on the internet – think should be done with Twitter?
From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2016
She’s as much a spoken-word act as a singer, and her tracks are some of the label’s nuttiest, twitchiest, most neck-snapping productions.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2015
But the twitchiest reaction was at Amnesty International.
From Economist ● Mar. 5, 2015
By the time United had lost two more defenders to injury in John O'Shea and his replacement Rafael da Silva, the final quarter settled down into the twitchiest of European contests.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2011
A pitcher, he soon learned, is the twitchiest of all athletes.
From Time Magazine Archive
