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pulse

[puhls] / pʌls /


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Leading an orchestra of 22, featuring lively colorations from saxophone, harp, marimba and guitar, conductor Michael Sakir captured the music’s landscape of alternating pulse and elegy.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 23, 2026

Obamwonyi told the inquest Hugo wasn't breathing and he couldn't find a pulse.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

Nothing gets the pulse pounding like an existential threat to humanity.

From Slate Sep. 9, 2026

Once the falling motion was complete, another carefully controlled magnetic pulse brought the two parts of the atomic wave back together.

From Science Daily Sep. 8, 2026

But Torak saw with a clutch of terror that the pulse in his throat was fainter.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Over the coming days, the eruption continues in pulses as sections of the caldera collapse and new vents open.

From Science Daily Sep. 22, 2026

Data runs through the glass, in the form of pulses of light, at the speed of over 100,000 miles per second.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

They can function as qubits, with their quantum states manipulated using carefully controlled laser pulses.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

They are the internet's hidden highways - bundles of optical fibres on the ocean floor carrying data between continents as pulses of light.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Helmuth likes the sound of Hitler's voice, the way his rasping, barking voice pulses with energy.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The bar in East Flagler Street pulsed with life and danced to the beat of the World Cup.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

Sound Wave has said it holds the basic patents in Japan and the U.S. for a method to treat early Alzheimer’s disease with low intensity pulsed ultrasound.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 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 anger pulsed through him as if it, instead of blood, thumped out of his heart and through his veins, but even as he stood, he could feel himself calming.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

But getting dressed required parental assistance, the bass pulsing off the sandstone was a techno remix of “The Wheels on the Bus,” and the drinks were apple juice and formula.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

New York City is pulsing with more energy than usual as the Knicks prepare to face the Spurs in crucial game five of the NBA Finals tonight.

From BBC Jun. 14, 2026

But it’s Peaches own music and stage show — ugly-beautiful DIY aesthetics and pulsing Electroclash musicality — where it all comes together in a powerfully freeing frenzy.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 19, 2026

A veritable feast for the ears that shimmers with sound — a stray guitar flourish here, a pulsing synthesizer there.

From Salon Mar. 6, 2026

They sit in the dark, the small flat lit only by the dim amber light of the radio, and listen to the British voices pulsing across the crackling airwaves.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti




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