Definitions
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- noun The state of being
jittery
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters
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Examples
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Some patients reported side effects such as jitteriness, nervousness and insomnia while taking the substance.
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Antidepressants during the third trimester could cause problems such as jitteriness when the baby is born.
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Antidepressants during the third trimester could cause problems such as jitteriness when the baby is born.
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NPR's sudden dismissal of Williams, for his daring to confess to some jitteriness around Muslims who seem foreign, has given Fox News a chance to crow about being the more tolerant media outlet.
Rob Asghar: The Moderate Muslim Contribution and Solution to Islamophobia in America Rob Asghar 2010
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NPR's sudden dismissal of Williams, for his daring to confess to some jitteriness around Muslims who seem foreign, has given Fox News a chance to crow about being the more tolerant media outlet.
Rob Asghar: The Moderate Muslim Contribution and Solution to Islamophobia in America Rob Asghar 2010
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Movements that resemble neonatal seizures can be just jitteriness, breath holding, arching, jerking, or startling.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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Slowly, after 3 months, the jitteriness and darkness started melting away.
Michael Nichols: Burden of Dreams: In the Redwoods Michael Nichols 2010
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Slowly, after 3 months, the jitteriness and darkness started melting away.
Michael Nichols: Burden of Dreams: In the Redwoods Michael Nichols 2010
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But larger doses will almost always result in nervousness, jitteriness and anxiety.
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But larger doses will almost always result in nervousness, jitteriness and anxiety.
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