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• a  characterized by jerky movements
  a jittery ride
• s  being in a tense state

• Like The Wire, it transcended a season of too many cop dramas, presenting dirty-but-effective cop Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) and inviting a jittery America to wonder whether our .
• The CEO of cell-phone-software maker Openwave had seen his firm's stock plunge more than a third in a single week, and he was about to address jittery investors.
• The biggest news event in Latin America last year made jittery reading for the hemisphere's military strongmen.

• edgy
• high-strung
• highly strung
• jumpy
• nervy
• overstrung
• restive
• uptight

News & Articles

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• Media Stocks Join Market Swoon After Fed Chief Says It Might Reduce Stimulus Effort
  This was the market ‘s worst day since 2011, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 -2.5% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average -2.3%. Traders became jittery after Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke said that the economy might be strong enough for the agency to pull back on its purchase of bonds, part of its strategy to stimulate spending. Media companies felt the chill wind, with the Dow Jones U.S ...
  June 20, 2013 - Deadline Hollywood
• U.S. Futures Jittery Ahead of Fed Decision, Bernanke Speech
  U.S. Futures Jittery Ahead of Fed Decision, Bernanke Speech
  June 19, 2013 - Nasdaq
• U.S. Stock Futures Higher, but Jittery Ahead of Fed
  U.S. Stock Futures Higher, but Jittery Ahead of Fed
  June 19, 2013 - Nasdaq

Quotes

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• Ingmar Bergman in TIME
  I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry ...... and miserable. I think it's awful,Bergman said.
• Anna Kournikova in The Associated Press
  It's an amazing opportunity to be back at Wimbledon,said Kournikova, who reached the semifinals as a 16-year-old in 1997. "I had so much fun today. Kind of jittery a little bit. But I had an amazing time."
• Anthony Mundine in Stuff.co.nz
  He was pretty cool,Mundine said. "Obviously he was a bit jittery because he would have probably been fearing the unknown but besides that he was pretty talkative. We had a couple of laughs but, at the same time, he was pretty serious as...