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cataclysmal (or cataclysmic), stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent
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To me, there was something convulsive about playing for five-plus and then deciding it all with a conventional first-to-seven, win-by-two tiebreak. — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, "Mailbag: In Defense of the WTA's Age Eligibility Rule," 31 July 2019 Jean drifts through the film in a convulsive trance of intensity that’s a whisper away from traumatized. — Nick Romano, EW.com, "'Dark Phoenix' reviews: At least it's better than X-Men: Apocalypse…?," 5 June 2019 Sensing irritation in your nasal passages, your body releases special brain-signaling chemicals that then trigger a convulsive expulsion of air out of the nose and mouth at more than 30 miles per hour. — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, "It’s 2019: How Are People Still Not Sneezing the Right Way?!?," 8 Feb. 2019 At the median, convulsive seizures dropped by 63 percent in the Dravet patients given ZX008 compared with a 1 percent reduction in placebo patients. — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, "Zogenix to submit anti-seizure drug for approval after clinical trial confirms benefit," 12 July 2018 But for much of the past century Iran has been locked in a convulsive struggle between rulers wanting to maintain their prerogatives and the ruled seeking freedom. — Reuel Marc Gerecht And, WSJ, "Don’t Fear Regime Change in Iran," 11 June 2018 The rate of these changes from an ecologist's point of view is convulsive. — Matt Simon, WIRED, "Inconvenient Minifauna and the Invasion of the Hammerhead Flatworms," 25 May 2018 While the various cases have yet to go to trial, the scandal has already endured its share of convulsive and strange twists. — Jake Fischer And Jon Wertheim, SI.com, "Could a Rogue FBI Agent Derail the NCAA Corruption Probe?," 23 May 2018 But by the summer of 1979, Rodney Dangerfield was on an incredible run of volcanic guest appearances on The Tonight Show, often reducing Johnny Carson to a slumped, convulsive fool, wiping tears from his eyes. — Chris Nashawaty, SI.com, "Inside the Caddyshack Scene That Squashed the Bill Murray-Chevy Chase Beef," 17 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'convulsive.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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