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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
Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
In the footage, the faceless android is seen suspended from the ceiling, its limbs twitching and moving in an unsettlingly human-like manner.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2025
Michael Gecan, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2025
The 6-3, 251-pounder sports short arms for the edge (32 2/8 inches) but makes up for it with full-body twitch and explosion.
—Nick Baumgardner, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
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Verb
Kirk says that when a cat experiences changes in air pressure, which can also happen while riding in a car, their ears may move or twitch in response.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
In the footage, the faceless android is seen suspended from the ceiling, its limbs twitching and moving in an unsettlingly human-like manner.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
The second thought is to resist the temptation to react to every national twitch, however promoted by either party.
—Michael Gecan, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2025
The 6-3, 251-pounder sports short arms for the edge (32 2/8 inches) but makes up for it with full-body twitch and explosion.
—Nick Baumgardner, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twitch
Verb
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Then came Brian Harman, fidgeting over each practice swing.—
Brendan Quinn,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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Minimize distracting habits like fidgeting, checking your watch, or tapping your fingers.—
Caroline Castrillon,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
Verb
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As soon as Tatiana Pino turned her dark blue Land Rover Defender into her long asphalt driveway, the flatbed truck jerked into reverse and slammed into the passenger side of her SUV, according to footage of the Aug. 30, 2023, hit-and-run obtained by the Herald.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2025
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This apparently spooked an SUV driver in the next lane, who jerked the wheel to the left and ran into the opposite curb.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The contraction resumes a more than two-year downward trend in the sector.—
Tobias Burns,
The Hill,
17 Apr. 2025
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Production output saw a substantial recovery in February, notching 1.5% month-on-month growth compared to the monthly contraction of 0.5% seen in January.—
Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Though Istanbul did not suffer from those tremors, over 53,000 were killed in Turkey and another 6,000 people in Syria.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
23 Apr. 2025
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In Parkinson’s patients, these neurons are slowly destroyed as the disease progresses, which eventually affects their mobility and causes the disease’s tell-tale tremors.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Joseph Quinn, the terrific British actor from A Quiet Place: Day One and Gladiator 2 (and our next Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four: First Steps), spends the bulk of this picture squirming in torment, emitting ear-splitting noises from deep within the pits of hell.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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The sixth episode of The White Lotus Season 3 has critics stunned—and in some cases, squirming—after a grim hour that pushed creator Mike White's pitch-black satire to new depths.—
Kevin Sabet,
Newsweek,
24 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Kelly, the lifeguard, jumped off her perch and yanked Harel back, toward the lockers, by the hair.—
Adam Levin,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2025
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And when he’s actually pulled away and thrown into the back of a cab, Kilmer’s exit is as unceremonious as a cable yanked out from an amp, leaving viewers drifting along the film’s woozy currents.—
Beatrice Loayza,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But these little twinges the audience might feel about everyone being mortal only added, if anything, to the evening’s personal potency, and the vitality of a reconvening of the tribe that supported the Wilson sisters from the outset, along with strays picked up during the MTV years.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
7 Mar. 2025
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Then, as the show progresses into new story lines and the rest of the cast tries to carry on without their key player, almost like a phantom limb, the audience feels a constant twinge that something is missing.—
Ile-Ife Okantah,
Vulture,
21 Jan. 2024
Noun
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The inverse relationship between global growth and the benefit to the Indian economy appears to be another arrow in India’s quiver.—
Ganesh Rao,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2025
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O’Neill then celebrated the sack by emptying the quiver on Hilltoppers quarterback Caden Veltkamp.—
Ryan Gaydos,
Fox News,
19 Dec. 2024
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“Twitch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twitch. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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