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as in to fidget
to make jerky or restless movements
the dog twitched in her sleep
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Recent Examples of twitch
David Fischer The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 21 Nov. 2025
In a heartbreaking video, a partially paralyzed dog is caught twitching his paws in his sleep, and internet users can’t stop sobbing.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Top executives spend earnings season prepping for landmines — fielding the same analyst questions on loop, hoping a single eyebrow twitch doesn’t tank the stock.
—Richard Torrenzano, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
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Verb
As the drugs flowed, Randolph's eyes were closed and his face twitched slightly.
—David Fischer The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 21 Nov. 2025
In a heartbreaking video, a partially paralyzed dog is caught twitching his paws in his sleep, and internet users can’t stop sobbing.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
The Babycatcher made a slight movement, just a twitch, and the ugliest dog anyone ever saw came bounding up behind him.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Top executives spend earnings season prepping for landmines — fielding the same analyst questions on loop, hoping a single eyebrow twitch doesn’t tank the stock.
—Richard Torrenzano, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twitch
Verb
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Gum may simply feed the desire to fidget, experts suspect.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
10 Jan. 2026
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Cole, wearing a khaki jumpsuit, spent much of the hearing sitting quietly and attentively as the parties argued, occasionally adjusting his glasses or fidgeting slightly in his chair.—
Gary Grumbach,
NBC news,
30 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Aisha jerked and opened her eyes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
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That jerking motion, combined with detergent and water, loosens dirt from the surfaces of clothing.—
Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott,
Southern Living,
27 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The result is not a neat redistribution of responsibility, but a net contraction of the system.—
Sylvana Quader Sinha,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Unsigned elisions, contractions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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In addition to tremors emanating from within the planet, these sensors detect explosions, traffic vibrations and even the vocalizations made by whales in the oceans.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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For reasons still not wholly understood, these ultradense objects—each about the mass of our star squeezed into a bizarre, city-sized ball of degenerate quantum matter—undergo starquakes in which the material on the surface shifts a bit like in an earthly tremor.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
22 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The quarterly ritual when companies publicly measure themselves up against analyst estimates, squirm through conference calls, and brace for big after-hours stock moves.—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
23 Jan. 2026
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There is another issue, of course, squirming away in the soft flesh of maternity leave.—
Nell Frizzell,
Vogue,
13 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Therefore Primate and its promising central character turns more into a typical slasher flick, repeatedly knocking off the swimsuit-wearing teens one by one, his specialty being yanking out jaws and other bloody grossouts.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
8 Jan. 2026
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Officer Alex Millan then yanked open the passenger door of the suspects’ car; at the same time, the car drove forward over the curb.—
Bay Area News Group,
Mercury News,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Buying that morning coffee now comes with a slight eye twinge.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Jan. 2026
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Even folks who seem to have it all together, like Ron’s slick CEO Jeff (Lou Diamond Phillips), only ever seem one twinge of embarrassment away from falling off the deep end.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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As the last rusty leaves fell from the trees in the parks and historic piazzas, the birds swooped down, rummaging and pecking and shaking their feathers, then flew off again with quivers of delight.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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One arrow in this marine quiver is the use of aircraft to patrol over vast distances while dropping sonobuoys to seek out subs.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
18 Jan. 2026
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“Twitch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twitch. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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