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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
Ben Smith, semafor.com, 18 Sep. 2025
These videos introduce slight synthetic movements to your stills, so a person may appear to slightly shift around in the frame, or a picture of your sleeping pup could gain a leg twitch.
—Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 6 Sep. 2025
Maggie Downs, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Jones’ raw traits have always been jaw-dropping — a 6-foot-6 defensive end who can combine an edge rusher’s twitch with an interior lineman’s power.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
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Verb
With the twitch of a regulatory muscle on Wednesday, Carr forced America’s strongest legacy media company, Disney, to pull one of its biggest stars off the air.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 18 Sep. 2025
These videos introduce slight synthetic movements to your stills, so a person may appear to slightly shift around in the frame, or a picture of your sleeping pup could gain a leg twitch.
—Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
My hand twitched toward the phone, muscle memory stronger than willpower.
—Maggie Downs, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Jones’ raw traits have always been jaw-dropping — a 6-foot-6 defensive end who can combine an edge rusher’s twitch with an interior lineman’s power.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twitch
Verb
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Children fidgeted in the relentless August heat.—
Jacqui Gifford,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Sep. 2025
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Notice: are people fidgeting, looking at their hands, or rolling their eyes?—
Anne Sugar,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Even the coldest heart has been melted by the tear-jerking video of a cat trying her best to clean her ears after they were cut off due to cancer.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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Paul goes to shake her hand but jerks it back, then gives her a left-handed handshake.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The closing of textile mills, the loss of manufacturing jobs — particularly from an Oshkosh B’Gosh factory in nearby Clay County that moved to Mexico in the mid-Nineties — induced a steady contraction of the local economy.—
David Peisner,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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Graham, whose small portfolio is known for punching above its weight, has persevered through previous rounds of contraction.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Weak shaking has been registered and several residents reported experiencing the tremor in Berkeley and the surrounding area according to the USGS DYFI report.—
CA Earthquake Bot,
Sacbee.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Not everyone sees the recent tremors as a turning point.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
17 Oct. 2025
Verb
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What happens next in the final minutes of The Vanishing will leave viewers squirming in their seats and hoping against hope for our vulnerable leading man.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Oct. 2025
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The open section of their session lasted for 15 minutes — and Howe will have squirmed through every second — but there were laughs amid the stretches and shuttle runs.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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McDaniel even yanked Tagovailoa in favor of rookie Quinn Ewers after his third pick.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
22 Oct. 2025
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Mel Brooks’ best comedy shares many similarities with his other revered films – a strong grip of genre beats, a non-stop barrage of gags yanking us forward, and an eagerness to give every performer a chance to comedically shine.—
Rory Doherty,
Vulture,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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
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But unlike the billions of other web-using inhabitants of planet Earth, the 72-year-old Canter feels an ever-so-slight twinge of culpability for all that digital junk that rockets across the internet each day.—
Johnny Dodd,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Even the aerial shots have the jiggle and quiver of a helicopter, not a drone.—
Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
26 Sep. 2025
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Even the aerial shots have the jiggle and quiver of a helicopter, not a drone.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Twitch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twitch. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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