convulsive
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Just occasionally, there are years when the world goes through some fundamental, convulsive change.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2025
Continuous monitoring of child deaths and improvements in health records to track how often these convulsive seizures precede death, he explains, will be needed for this to be confirmed.
From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2024
"Such crises are resolved through understanding and reliance on rationality, away from the language of emotion and convulsive populist statements that only produce more crises and tension", Sudani was quoted as telling his cabinet.
From Reuters • Sep. 26, 2023
Because those effects are difficult to observe in living patients, most studies are done on human brains post-mortem — as Meduna did in the early days of convulsive therapies — or on rodents.
From Salon • Sep. 4, 2023
Adah’s weak side was overtaken by convulsive trembling, and Rachel seemed to be in a trance.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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