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twitchy

[twich-ee] / ˈtwɪtʃ i /


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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

Most objectionable may be the central character, frustrated film director Ben Braxton, played with twitchy tetchiness by Hamish Linklater.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16, 2026

“I feel twitchy again, you know, I just feel good.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2025

A second spell of 10 overs, just as England were getting twitchy and India number 10 Jasprit Bumrah was blocking like Geoffrey Boycott.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2025

And that my dad looks happier and less twitchy than normal.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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

Afterward, those mice exposed to the eight-hertz, thetalike light waves proved to be relatively calm in behavioral tests: they lingered in lighted portions of a special cage, while their twitchier counterparts ran for the shadows.

From New York Times May 18, 2017

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

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




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