noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
nervous
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The nervous tic went into overdrive.
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Constant mulling had left Father Vic afflicted with a wide array of nervous tics , small flinches and exasperated sighs.
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She peered in through his window with a smile and a nervous tic that made her appear to be pleading.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was soon talking more readily and his facial tics began subsiding.
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She peered in through his window with a smile and a nervous tic that made her appear to be pleading.
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Tension prodded a tic under her eye.
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The corresponding torque/position character-is tic is shown it, Fig. 6.4.
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These tics, these traits, had become more pronounced since he had given up smoking.