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pulse

[puhls] / pʌls /


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Krasner’s small, tight accretions of repetitive marks and shapes seem airless and uninflected; even the densest of Pollock’s early, layered pours pulse and breathe, his touch liberated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

A violinist who covered music from 1925 to 1947, she was a modernist with her finger on the pulse of the times and stood in refreshing contrast to the fussy East Coast male critics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

As a result, the change can appear and vanish almost as quickly as the light pulse itself.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

World Athletics says those decisions were taken based on the popularity of each event and data it gathered on viewer behaviour, including sweat response and pulse rate.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Music can affect our heartbeat, blood pressure, and pulse rate, and reduce stress, anxiety and even depression.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

More generally, the results show that extremely short electrical pulses can expose forms of superconducting transport that are normally concealed by slower effects such as vortex motion and heating.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 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

The startup’s design creates all that energy by linking together 156 modules, or movable shipping container-sized machines, that each emit pulses of energy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The bell is the round part of the jellyfish that pulses like a heart—it’s the only part you can touch without getting stung.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin

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

Concerns about the wider implications of such a change pulsed through discussions at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month and have contributed to widespread economic anxiety in the US.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

Heat rose up the sides of her neck and pulsed into her cheeks.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

Florence and its surroundings move Muratov profoundly, especially because this region best expresses the 15th-century Renaissance, or Quattrocento, in which he senses “the beating of a great heart pulsing with pure and noble blood.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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

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

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

Axel likes to imagine peeking underneath George’s white hair, underneath the flesh and bone, and into the pulsing brain of George M. Flores.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers




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