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pulse

[puhls] / pʌls /


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Roughly chop the onion by hand, or pulse it briefly in a food processor until finely chopped but not puréed.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

So you get a track like Where Do We Go, which marries a sashaying Afrobeats rhythm to a hypnotic electronic pulse.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Auto-tracking: Screenless trackers log workouts automatically using movement and pulse readings.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

That’s because it can be explained by saying that only the very front of the long-duration pulse makes it straight through the atomic cloud, while the rest is scattered.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

Natalie felt her pulse quicken as she came back to her old, familiar topic.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Those are hardly words that send investors’ pulses racing.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Gaofen 3 uses 'synthetic aperture radar,' or SAR, which emits microwave pulses to gather data, capturing imagery at any time of day or night, regardless of cloud cover.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

The laser pulses caused the molecules to break into charged fragments.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

They then introduced a brief delay between laser pulses.

From Science Daily Jul. 4, 2026

Those eight founders were the cereals emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, and barley; the pulses lentil, pea, chickpea, and bitter vetch; and the fiber crop flax.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

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

This setup created a regularly pulsed environment that effectively kicked the atoms over and over again.

From Science Daily Jan. 8, 2026

The fear pulsed in his throat and it was hard to swallow, and he was tempted.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

A pulsing exploration of party culture and collective movement, it's a departure from the tender, introspective ballads on her Mercury Prize-winning debut, Collapsed In Sunbeams and its 2023 follow-up, My Soft Machine.

From BBC Apr. 2, 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

Marine life that most people never see floated into view, including delicate comb jellies with pulsing fairy-light illuminations along their sides.

From Barron's Jan. 26, 2026

Showers at Dad’s house are the best—he has one of those pounding, pulsing shower systems that spray water from the sides as well as the top, so the water smashes you everywhere.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper




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