as in throb
a rhythmic expanding and contracting
his resting pulse rate is much lower than that of most men his age
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Recent Examples of pulse
Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Botox helps reduce urine leakage and the urge to pee, while nerve stimulation therapy uses electrical pulses to help maintain better bladder function.86
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—Lindsay Curtis, Health, 25 Oct. 2025
Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
Komarnicka believes that what wearables did for the body - turning steps and pulse into rituals of health - AI can now do for the mind.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
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Noun
The Emerson poll also took the pulse of how people are feeling about next year’s gubernatorial race.
—Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Botox helps reduce urine leakage and the urge to pee, while nerve stimulation therapy uses electrical pulses to help maintain better bladder function.86
3.
—Lindsay Curtis, Health, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
Add cold butter; pulse just until mixture resembles coarse meal (some pea-size pieces are fine), 12 to 15 pulses.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
Komarnicka believes that what wearables did for the body - turning steps and pulse into rituals of health - AI can now do for the mind.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulse
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
Verb
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Two teenage girls are charged with kidnapping a teenage boy after allegedly luring him into a basement and beating him for three hours in early November.—
Kyle Werner,
Des Moines Register,
9 Jan. 2026
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Josh Doan scored, Colten Ellis made 30 saves in his first game in a month and the Buffalo Sabres beat the New York Rangers 5-2 on Thursday night to give them 12 victories in their past 13 games.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The man previously on Florida’s Death Row for beating, stabbing and strangling a La Carreta waitress with a rice cooker — before lighting a blaze to destroy key evidence — should be condemned to die, Miami prosecutors told a jury after detailing the slaying on Wednesday morning.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
5 Nov. 2025
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Predictably, Mike responds to Kyle’s beating by meddling further.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
2 Nov. 2025
Verb
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From vibrating steering wheels, haptic smartwatches, and even gaming controllers.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
4 Jan. 2026
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The vibrating bristles of this electric version can break up and sweep away plaque more effectively.—
Nicol Natale,
PEOPLE,
28 Dec. 2025
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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.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
27 Oct. 2025
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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
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“Pulse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulse. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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