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Recent Examples of jittery Paul Monreal is a fourth-great-grandchild of Catherine and Patrick O’Leary, who endured the enmity of Chicagoans after they were wrongfully accused of starting the Great Chicago Fire, which legend said was started by a jittery dairy cow named Daisy. William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025 For all the consternation and jittery moments, at least neither team asked their franchise player to change positions in an awkward matter, alienate the player and eventually trade the player for a return many view as underwhelming. Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025 Investors remain jittery as the conflict between Israel and Iran has yet to cool. Brian Evans, CNBC, 19 June 2025 Three Possible Options Muslim World Unites in Response to Israel Over Iran Strikes Energy markets are jittery. John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for jittery
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jittery
Adjective
  • Neurons and glial cells are like dance partners in the brain, coordinating moves that shape how signals flow and how excitable neurons become.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Tony has fully bought into the dream, and Skarsgård plays him with excitable, boyish humor, almost as if the whole thing were a game.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • People should be joyful, not worried.
    Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • He’s not focused on the economy, which most Americans are worried about.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Against Świątek, in two nervous moments, one of them on match point, net cords had given her safe harbor.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The district’s disparate parts would be connected largely by two-lane highways cutting through steep slopes of places such as the Modoc National Forest, where nervous drivers must beware of a lack of guardrails.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Maddie is talented, warm, funny and kind but also anxious, plagued with low self-esteem cultivated by a traumatic childhood.
    Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The other may be unsure, though not opposed, but anxious about leaving family and community.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There have been some instances, however, when an upset crayfish comes home from a hard day of crayfishing only to have to kick out a frog and cap the burrow.
    Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, for an AI that claims someone is going into something bad, but the AI has computationally misjudged the circumstance, users are bound to howl and get upset with the AI and the AI maker.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And that helped to resolve that weird uneasy tension in my head.
    Maria Reva September 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The safe-haven asset offers investors a hedge against an uneasy financial environment as a sharp hiring slowdown coincides with a steady uptick of inflation, according to analysts.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Of course, other corporations have been down a similarly troubled road in recent years.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The filing is known in Italy as a CNC, and offers troubled companies the time and space to restructure, and chart a path forward.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Jittery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jittery. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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