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palpitation

noun

ˌpal-pə-ˈtā-shən

Definition of palpitation

as in pulse

a rhythmic expanding and contracting a palpitation of the blood vessels

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Recent Examples of palpitation Or like a financial EKG machine sensing huge palpitations. — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026 Upon being found guilty and having his bail revoked that February, he was taken to Bellevue complaining of high blood pressure, chest pains and palpitations. — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 13 May 2026 When he was sent to jail for the first time in 2020, he was taken from the courthouse in an ambulance to be checked out at a hospital for heart palpitations and high blood pressure. — ABC News, 13 May 2026 Symptoms include swelling in the legs, chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, heart palpitations, dizziness and fainting. — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 6 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for palpitation

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If Alice reclines all the way, Bob might initiate a three-quarters recline, followed by Carla, who reclines only halfway, until Dan stops the pulse by refusing to recline on principle.

— Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 10 July 2026
But the B-sides to both songs hinted at the political pulse beating across the album’s front half.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 10 July 2026

Definition of pulse

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Evoking Sean Baker in its style, a whirlwind 10-minute opening sequence — sweatily shot by Adam Newport-Berra and feverishly cut by editors Taylor Levy and Sofía Subercaseaux to a steady, heavy throb of bass — establishes this world to either seductive or nightmarish effect.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 May 2026
Operating somewhere between the steamy formlessness of Topdown Dialectic and the tactile throb of Shackleton, Vasin uncovers some of his most distinctive rhythms by mutating the space surrounding his samples.

— Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 13 Apr. 2026

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