throbbing
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That moment came in 2008, with a crash and a long, throbbing hangover.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
He is a throbbing mass of malevolence, turned up — to reference Reiner’s “This Is Spinal Tap” — to 11.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
On the second track, “Bumpy,” what sounds like a sonic rendering of an exploding box of crayons leads to a throbbing pulse that could be a sentient computer’s ticking heart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025
Researchers here are developing the extraordinarily sounding "organ-on-a-chip" technology, conjuring up alarming images of throbbing brains and beating hearts sitting on top of electronic circuits.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
If her head hadn’t been throbbing, she might have laughed.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Bichat shows, in his researches on life and death, how the black and carbonized blood disturbs the functions of the brain and acts like a narcotic poison, causing the heart finally to cease its throbbings.
From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Augustus C. Hamlin
Her eyes were full of tears of joy, and her heart almost bursting with the throbbings of delight, in the anticipation of again pressing her idolized child to her bosom.
From Madame Roland, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
No, not forgotten; else the faithful beating Of heart to genial heart, that beat again, Were turned to throbbings; and each pulse repeating But the sad echoings of pain to pain.
From Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
A pause ensued, during which Federico’s heart beat so strongly that he thought its throbbings must surely be audible through the slight barrier separating him from the speakers.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 by Various
All was still, hushed, silent as the grave, and only the wild throbbings of the young girl's heart could be heard.
From Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Paschal Beverly Randolph
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