throbs 1 of 2

plural of throb
as in pulses
a rhythmic expanding and contracting I seemed to feel anew the pain of her death with each throb of my heart

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throbs

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of throb
as in vibrates
to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner the car's stereo speakers throbbing with the song's bass line

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Recent Examples of throbs
Verb
Portugal’s coastline throbs with beach goers and sports enthusiasts. Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • Weather radar sends out pulses of radio waves and detects what bounces back.
    Brandi D. Addison, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The setup relied on an optical channel where multiple light pulses shared the same noise pattern.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Designer Joe Nahem of the esteemed firm Fox-Nahem was then brought in to merge the two spaces into one wildly creative space that vibrates with color, pattern, and texture.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Each of the three biographies—any good biography—vibrates with the intensity of its author’s possession by their subject and the thrill of exhumation, if only metaphoric.
    Megan Marshall September 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • On that front, scale beats rhetoric and right now, China has both.
    Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Or Miami wins, but Georgia Tech only loses one or two conferences games, then beats Georgia, in which case the ’Canes and Jackets might both get in.
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025

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