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pulse

[puhls] / pʌls /


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Each time a laser pulse excited the sample, the bright fringes appeared in a different position.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

The handful of tracks that qualify as “rock” do little to quicken the pulse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Huang's "defence of CoreWeave's financial position was enough to pull the NeoCloud complex off the floor, drag AI equities higher and give the broader market something resembling a pulse", wrote SPI Asset Management's Stephen Innes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

The “coastally trapped” aquatic pulse has been slithering up the coast for weeks, fascinating scientists and weather watchers as it marched across the equatorial Pacific before splitting upon hitting the coast of Peru.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Ben swore he had talked to a guy he used to work with in Singapore, who had his finger on the pulse in Thailand.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

In the experiments, carefully timed laser pulses drive electrons from an extremely sharp metal tip toward a silver surface.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

To examine this relationship experimentally, the team placed a single atom on the surface to confine the electron wave packets to an extremely small region immediately before the laser pulses arrived.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

While the warmer waters of the Pacific in an El Niño directly disrupt the weather around tropical areas, pulses of energy in the atmosphere, known as planetary waves, can cause disturbances even at polar regions.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

"The mechanism behind short X-ray pulses has been well known for a long time," says Prof. Tenio Popmintchev from the Institute of Photonics at TU Wien.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

That, or a really, really angry guy has started sledgehammering the wall, such is the way the music pulses.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

RTX and Xcimer are developing a prototype for a pulsed ultraviolet laser system and aim for an initial demonstration within two years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Emma Robins, from Reading, says broccoli hidden in pesto pasta is a favourite for her three-year-old son Alfred, as well as veg pulsed into pasta sauces.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Mix with pulsed chickpeas and garlic for a creamier version of hummus.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

Though she initially was considered missing, the urgency to quickly find Guthrie pulsed through the first days of media coverage because of her heart condition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026

The green light from Eddie’s journal still pulsed in my pocket.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

They use optical sensors to detect blood pulsing through your veins, and machine-learning models to analyze the data to estimate blood pressure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

The video, set to pulsing music, delivering a scathing critique of the system that he once tried to reform.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

And pulsing is no joke — one exercise left my calves shaking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

The steady pulsing of milking machines mingled with a thumping musical beat as McAfee marched down the rows, pointing to their light pink udders.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

Jimmy and Bo were standing in the kitchen, bleary-eyed but pulsing with energy.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss


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