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Recent Examples of palpitation
The medical board said the patient first saw Ahmed in 2019 after experiencing heart palpitations, chest pain, shortness of breath and dizziness.
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Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
Not so long ago, the merest whisper of Wrexham’s main striker suffering a possible injury scare was enough to give supporters palpitations.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2025
People can develop mental health problems and physical manifestations such as headaches, back pain, abdominal cramping, heart palpitations and trouble concentrating.
—Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 20 Nov. 2025
Possible symptoms include constipation, fatigue, heart palpitations, muscle weakness or spasms, and numbness.
—Carrie Madormo, Health, 7 Nov. 2025
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Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
Not so long ago, the merest whisper of Wrexham’s main striker suffering a possible injury scare was enough to give supporters palpitations.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2025
People can develop mental health problems and physical manifestations such as headaches, back pain, abdominal cramping, heart palpitations and trouble concentrating.
—Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 20 Nov. 2025
Possible symptoms include constipation, fatigue, heart palpitations, muscle weakness or spasms, and numbness.
—Carrie Madormo, Health, 7 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for palpitation
Noun
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Instead of sending information as electrical signals through copper wire, fiber uses strands of ultra-pure glass—each one thinner than a human hair—to carry data as pulses of light.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
27 Jan. 2026
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Unlike traditional copper phone lines that transmit information as electrical signals, fiber-optic cables are tiny bendable strands of glass through which data is sent as photons — lasers emitting pulses of light — at far higher speed, using less energy.—
Katie Tarasov,
CNBC,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Pain that is not a word throbs in his shoulders, awakens him each morning.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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The song may be six minutes long, but the circuitous lope of his acoustic-guitar strum and low throb of his warbling feel eternal, like the type of tune Sisyphus might have hummed to keep himself company.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
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“Palpitation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palpitation. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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