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This week, as protest has convulsed some other campuses, Brandeis students have been on spring break, to coincide with the Passover holiday.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2024

Lymany and Lupareve have not been spared the fighting that has convulsed countless other Ukrainian villages, towns, and cities.

From Reuters • Oct. 19, 2022

However, the coronavirus pandemic has convulsed Europe, making its politics even more volatile than before.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2021

The issue of migration has convulsed Europe since the influx of more than a million people in 2015 and 2016, fleeing violence and poverty in the Mideast, Afghanistan and Africa.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2019

That old Adamic principle of a legislative sovereignty in man, which has convulsed the nations for six thousand years, shall be utterly renounced and crucified the world over.

From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by Kerr, James