throbbing
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He is a throbbing mass of malevolence, turned up — to reference Reiner’s “This Is Spinal Tap” — to 11.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
She told me I may see her third eye throbbing there when she entered her trance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
On the second track, “Bumpy,” what sounds like a sonic rendering of an exploding box of crayons leads to a throbbing pulse that could be a sentient computer’s ticking heart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025
Researchers here are developing the extraordinarily sounding "organ-on-a-chip" technology, conjuring up alarming images of throbbing brains and beating hearts sitting on top of electronic circuits.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
I rolled out of the bed, my head throbbing, and felt her eyes on me.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
I might snatch it perhaps but for these mad throbbings, this veil over my eyes, the dryness of my lips.
From Woman by Magdeleine Marx
The beatings of our heart can be heard; but the ceaseless throbbings and throes of thought are unheard, as it changes from material to spiritual standpoints.
From The People's Idea of God Its Effect On Health And Christianity by Mary Baker Eddy
And her heart leaps suddenly; its tumultuous throbbings nearly suffocate her.
From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lawrence L. Lynch
No wonder, then, that she clung to her perverseness, and moved about on her restless pillow with no sweet or refreshing sleep to quiet the throbbings of her heavy brow.
From The Elm Tree Tales by F. Irene Burge (Frances Irene Burge) Smith
And its booming notes descended to subsonic throbbings that gripped and wrung the nerves to anguish.
From The Record of Currupira by Robert Abernathy
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