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heartbeat

[hahrt-beet] / ˈhɑrtˌbit /
NOUN
pulse
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“Independent venues are the heartbeat of live music,” said Rene Volker, Spotify’s senior director of live music.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

“I served for four years being a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States,” Harris said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Once in the late 1950s, while building machinery to record sounds a heart makes, he accidentally used the wrong resistor, but its electrical pulse rate was steady, like a heartbeat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

‘Kharg is not just another asset. It is Iran’s economic heartbeat.’

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

Inside the womb, the baby hears the mother’s heartbeat, the rushing sound of amniotic fluid and the mother’s voice.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin