as in pulse
a rhythmic expanding and contracting
you should press against the artery in your wrist and count the pulsations to calculate your heart rate
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Recent Examples of pulsation
While the former aids in the reduction of puffiness and dark circles in the under-eye area based on hot and cold contrast therapy, the latter comes with three attachments for relieving muscle pain, tension, and soreness through rapid pulsations.
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Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2025
The silvered soleil face shows black subdials and an outer bright blue pulsations scale calibrated for 15 pulsations.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2025
However, an alternative explanation for the rings could be a series of pulsations within the dying star that take place every few thousand years.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 30 July 2025
To gauge whether the blood vessel pulsations propel glymphatic flow, the researchers stimulated the area of the mouse brain that produces the neurotransmitter, artificially speeding up the pulses from every 50 seconds to every 10.
—Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 8 Jan. 2025
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Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2025
The silvered soleil face shows black subdials and an outer bright blue pulsations scale calibrated for 15 pulsations.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2025
However, an alternative explanation for the rings could be a series of pulsations within the dying star that take place every few thousand years.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 30 July 2025
To gauge whether the blood vessel pulsations propel glymphatic flow, the researchers stimulated the area of the mouse brain that produces the neurotransmitter, artificially speeding up the pulses from every 50 seconds to every 10.
—Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulsation
Noun
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So the best way to start taking the wartime moviegoing pulse is to look at the first frame of the Eid al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of Ramadan.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2026
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Remote sensing that uses laser pulses to accurately measure distances to objects and create 3D models of the environment.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
23 Mar. 2026
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And in my own case, that meaning has been a reminder — unwelcome but reliable — of my origins, and of the need to find the right fit when crossing between languages, so that the ache in one finds its answering throb in another.—
Jan Steyn,
The Dial,
10 Mar. 2026
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Maybe this nonstop back-and-forth, this spiritual reverb, this throb-throb oscillation between the actual and the symbolic, the objective and the imagined, is the heartbeat of Moby-Dick.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Pulsation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulsation. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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