as in ache
a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body
can't stand those funny tingles I get when my foot falls asleep
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Recent Examples of tingle
David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2025
Unless your skin is very sensitive, Reedle Shot 100 is a great entry point into spicule serums, offering a 100/1,000 microneedle intensity—enough for that signature tingle without overwhelming heat.
—Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2025
Kamal Choudhury, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
The disease attacks the central nervous system, disrupting the flow of information between the brain and the body and leading to a range of debilitating symptoms including difficulty walking, fatigue, numbness and tingling, and vision problems.
—Andrew Abrahams, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
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Noun
Not an especially memorable line compared to others here, but Close’s delivery gives it a tingle, selling it like Mildred Pierce pouring scorn on that ingrate Veda.
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Side effects are generally mild and temporary, including skin irritation, headache and tingling sensations at electrode sites, Flow said, adding skin burns have occurred when the device's pads were reused or dried out.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for tingle
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Studies show that 50 percent of the global population is estimated to suffer from a Vitamin D insufficiency, and this time of year, the effects are even more obvious thanks to a lack of sun exposure—mood swings and fatigue set in, and general aches and pains can become worse.—
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Their days are filled with doctor’s visits and pill bottles, aches and pains.—
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Netflix and Amazon jingled all the way to some big audiences on Christmas Day, thanks to the NFL.—
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The next signs of the nation’s political divide might be jingling in your pocket next year.—
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As politicians in both parties warned that lawbreakers in the crowd would pay, Webster suppressed a pang of fear.—
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Even the most holiday-inclined have felt this pang at some point.—
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So the pair took a romp through wine country for Christina’s birthday, clinking glasses at Progeny Winery in Napa Valley and Restoration Hardware in Yountville.—
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Later on, the younger kids in bed, a gathering of lawn chairs, clinking ice, and summer crickets or cicadas, frogs, whatever, Ray, what is that?—
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Bolden was named as part of Operation Silver Shovel, which was the FBI’s more than three-year sting.—
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The design work is intensifying hyper-realistic and comes with a surprise sting in its tail, not to mention some gorgeous vistas from the great lighting designer Heather Gilbert, who send shafts of light into the play’s motel room of the paranoid.—
Verb
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Eerie chants, tinkling percussion, zany strings, and plucky swelling piano.—
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The soothing, deeply resonant humming of the bowls and sparkling tinkling of chimes filled the room.—
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So Skinny Pedro had experienced the pain of seeing his dream simultaneously realized and shattered.—
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Hannah tells the jury how the pain affected her.—
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Pulling up from the free-throw line with a defender a few feet ahead, Andrews’ midrange jumper rattled inside the basket before popping back out as the buzzer sounded.—
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When shopkeepers in the narrow streets of Tehran’s Grand Bazaar protested the government’s failing economic policies, their chants rattled the regime.—
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“Tingle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tingle. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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