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
Md Published, Verywell Health, 12 July 2025
Featuring a 300-watt motor and three speed options — low, high, pulse — the KitchenAid 9-Cup Food Processor Plus will save loads of prep time.
—Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 July 2025
arkansasonline.com, 10 July 2025
Pride Weekend 2025 is finally here, and New York City is pulsing with energy and celebration.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 27 June 2025
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Noun
Place the seeds in a blender and pulse for 5 to 15 seconds, maximum, to release the juice without pulverizing the seeds.
—Md Published, Verywell Health, 12 July 2025
Featuring a 300-watt motor and three speed options — low, high, pulse — the KitchenAid 9-Cup Food Processor Plus will save loads of prep time.
—Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 July 2025
Verb
Chayefsky’s script is fire-breathing — dense, literate, pulsing with fury — and the performances rise to meet it.
—arkansasonline.com, 10 July 2025
Pride Weekend 2025 is finally here, and New York City is pulsing with energy and celebration.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 27 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulse
Noun
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The electric throb of cicadas enters my veins like an ether.—
Helen Whybrow
July 7,
Literary Hub,
7 July 2025
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The ’70s-evoking folk fare that dots the front half of the record greatly contrasts with the dance floor throb of the latter, and few of the hooks hit as hard as some of her previous work.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
30 May 2025
Verb
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Netflix won’t be unhappy, however, beating its 107 nominations from last year to put it in second place, thanks to big mornings for Adolescence, which got 13, 11 noms for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story and 10 for Black Mirror.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
15 July 2025
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Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images JPMorgan Chase beat Wall Street’s expectations for the second quarter on Tuesday, reporting earnings of $5.24 a share and $45.68 billion in revenue during the period.—
Josephine Rozzelle,
CNBC,
15 July 2025
Noun
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Yet no lawyer had previously brought up the rapes and beatings that Bell witnessed during his stay at Dozier, Brown and Martin said.—
The Marshall Project,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 July 2025
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In Chicago, the closest parallel to the racial attacks in 1980s New York was the 1997 Bridgeport attack on Lenard Clark, a Black 13-year-old, by a group of teenagers including Frank Caruso Jr., who was convicted of the beating but ultimately forced to serve only two years of an eight-year sentence.—
Robert Chiarito,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
Verb
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Somewhere around hour two of not moving, my hamstrings began to vibrate like the low end of a baby grand.—
Peter Rubin,
Longreads,
8 July 2025
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Their beating wings vibrate, inadvertently loosening pollen, which then falls onto the female part of the flower.—
Nan Sterman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 July 2025
Noun
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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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Anyone could see its pulsation in the swelling and ebbing cluster of people who took minutes or hours from a crowded day, who missed meals and forwent their customary amusements to keep a chilly vigil with a mother duck who was bringing forth her young.—
Chris Foran,
Journal Sentinel,
24 Apr. 2024
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“Pulse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulse. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.
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