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Princeton's WordNet

  1. jitters, heebie-jeebies, screaming meemiesnoun

    extreme nervousness

Wikipedia

  1. jitters

    Jitter is the deviation in frequency of a signal.

ChatGPT

  1. jitters

    Jitters generally refers to feelings of extreme nervousness, unease or restlessness. In a more technical context, it can refer to irregular fluctuations in a signal, especially in relation to synchronous digital systems or alignment of data in telecommunication pathways.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of jitters in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of jitters in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of jitters in a Sentence

  1. Kevin Porter Jr.:

    The first game, there were a lot of jitters with us being a new group, we just wanted to turn it around. It’s not about having just one bad game. There are 82 of them. It’s how you respond. We responded great tonight.

  2. Nick Maroutsos:

    We believe the Fed is trying to thread the needle, balancing market jitters about slowing global growth with robust consumer spending and a strong job market in the U.S., in other words, by cutting just 25 bps, the Fed is trying to bolster market confidence while also keeping some dry powder in reserve in case of an economic shock.

  3. Jon Mackay:

    A little bit of today's jitters are related to a hangover to yesterday's wrongly placed exuberance that a trade deal was imminent, and the reality is we are in for a long slugfest between the U.S. and China.

  4. Peter Cardillo:

    I suspect that what we're seeing here is a little market jitters due to the fact that the dollar continues to weaken, i think we will just stay in a mixed-to-holding pattern for the next day or two until the earnings season begins to move into full gear next week.

  5. M. F. K. Fisher:

    Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

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