pulsate
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The director allows her protagonist’s pain to protract and pulsate without narrative fuss; even scenes of turmoil unspool with a deliberate delicacy.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2023
The flute solo made the hall pulsate with a full life of its own.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2023
The paintings — they’re big — pulsate on the walls.
From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2022
The first rung—that is, the one concerning the nearest cosmic objects—relies on geometric parallax to determine the distance to special stars called Cepheid variables, which pulsate in proportion to their intrinsic luminosity.
From Scientific American • Apr. 18, 2022
Cepheid stars pulsate, getting brighter and dimmer in a very predictable way; the way they pulsate is closely related to how much light they put out.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing pulsate
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