Example Sentences

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Pathological vigilance, irritability and jumpiness, known as reactivity, feel like flight responses that have outlived their purpose.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2022

Einstein objected to the jumpiness, chance elements and other indeterminate aspects of quantum theory, whereas Bohr found these acceptable.

From Scientific American • Nov. 13, 2017

But it is the jumpiness and the contradictions of Baldwin’s text that play so well in Peck’s movie: film, too, often jumps around and contradicts itself—or reality.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2017

The retired Air Force general said he wasn't certain, but the Iraqis' jumpiness was a portent.

From US News • Jan. 17, 2016

But I knew Uncle Tony wasn't trying to be rude, and that his jumpiness was all about my second-place loss at the meet on Saturday, which, by the way, he wasn't at.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds