as in ache
a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body
can't stand those funny tingles I get when my foot falls asleep
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Recent Examples of tingle
Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2024
Unlike other plumpers, this one leaves a slight tingle rather than an overbearing burning sensation- thank goodness!
—Taylor Lane, StyleCaster, 3 Dec. 2024
Sarah Linn, Sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Symptoms can include numbness or tingling, lack of coordination and difficulty walking.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
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Noun
The world's largest slithering snake is sure to send a tingle down your spine.
—Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2024
Unlike other plumpers, this one leaves a slight tingle rather than an overbearing burning sensation- thank goodness!
—Taylor Lane, StyleCaster, 3 Dec. 2024
Verb
If your tongue starts tingling after that second helping of Nashville-style hot chicken, don’t reach for a glass of water, health experts say.
—Sarah Linn, Sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Symptoms can include numbness or tingling, lack of coordination and difficulty walking.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tingle
Noun
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Many people with babesiosis don’t feel sick or have symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but some may experience flu-like symptoms such as a fever, chills, sweating, body aches, appetite loss, nausea or fatigue.—
Natalie Jones,
Baltimore Sun,
30 May 2025
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Listeriosis can cause fever, muscle aches, headaches, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 May 2025
Verb
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And that repeating first couplet — which comprises six of the poem’s 18 lines and occupied the first day of this challenge — will surely jingle in your pocket for a long time to come.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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Men dressed as 1880s gunfighters are forever clomping up and down wooden sidewalks with jingling spurs and holstered revolvers on their belts.—
Richard Grant,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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And yet the extent of the common language for emotional and physical pain is itself remarkable: crushing sadness, pangs of guilt, wrenching news, the need for something to kill the pain.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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And just as suddenly as that dream was about to begin, the pang in Carr’s gut was growing more undeniable.—
Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
12 May 2025
Verb
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Jiayi Li Listen to this article · 9:35 min Learn more By Emma Goldberg April 12, 2025 On Instagram feeds, martini glasses clink in what feels like a never-ending loop.—
Emma Goldberg,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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To show that behind the wine glasses clinking in celebration, there are also tears, fears and moments of reckoning.—
Jessica Guerrieri,
People.com,
9 May 2025
Noun
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Denver remained his target despite the sting of not being drafted or initially signed by the Broncos.—
Nick Kosmider,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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This mindset change removes the sting of rejection and increases outreach volume.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
Verb
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The background music, pleasantly tinkled nightly by a real person sitting at a real piano, mixes in pop melodies alongside the Broadway classics and jazz standards.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
18 May 2025
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Another smaller-scale way to protect plants is to strategically redirect your pet's attention, especially if they're tempted to tinkle in the garden.—
Maddie Topliff,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 May 2025
Noun
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Winant crystallizes this idea of crossing a indescribable threshold through her discussion and analysis of masochism, an intrinsic component of athletic practice that intertwines physical pleasure with pain.—
Jessica Simmons-Reid,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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The primary question negotiators must settle is how to share the pain of shrinking water supplies between the Upper Basin — which includes Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah — and the Lower Basin states of Arizona, California and Nevada.—
Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
31 May 2025
Verb
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The chill in investor confidence spread to the stock market, but several announcements from Trump about tariffs rattled stocks deeper.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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The booms rattle windows, frighten pets, and have raised concerns about threats to the structural integrity of private homes.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 May 2025
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“Tingle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tingle. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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