spasmatic

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These spasmatic neocons now can no longer ignore the clear progress of potent and powerful forces forced into the equation by their own failed consternations.

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  • These spasmatic neocons now can no longer ignore the clear progress of potent and powerful forces forced into the equation by their own failed consternations. —  Salem-News.com
  • Be alienated as AIDS Wolf play their particular brand of spasmatic experimental art rock to a crowd of confused people pretending to "get it!" —  gauntlet.ucalgary.ca RSS feed
  • When Dylan McKay, the holiest man on earth, calls Brenda's cellphone, all the way from Wyoming, and Kelly wigs out in a series of weird spasmatic and semi-epileptic bursts from scene to scene, do people understand what this —  LAist
  • This leads some traders to have a spasmatic trading trigger finger and can create for whipsaw trading. —  US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha
  • The arm continues the spasmatic movement without the satisfaction of either the sensation of impact or the reverberation of the drum tone. —  One More Middle Aged Guy
 

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  1. = French spasmatique = Spanish espasmático, from Middle Latin spasmaticus, from Greek σπάσ, σ1μα(τ-), a spasm: see spasm.
 

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