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vibrate

[vahy-breyt] / ˈvaɪ breɪt /


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“Nothing beats feeling the ground vibrate, seeing the charting of the wheels and hearing the whistle,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Spin refers to the rotation like properties of light, while the Stokes parameters describe polarization, or the direction in which light waves vibrate as they travel.

From Science Daily Jul. 13, 2026

Some of Epicore Biosystems' devices vibrate gently when they calculate that it is time for you to take a swig of fluid, to avoid becoming dehydrated.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

These new songs, they vibrate very highly for me and I’m excited about experiencing and expressing that.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

He spoke so softly that I felt his words vibrate against my skin.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Some fans do just that, but the packed stadium vibrates harder with cheers as thousands of phones stay in the air.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

"What happens in any part of this ocean vibrates through all of us," she told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

Even if you never bore witness to that outrageous performance, its elemental alchemy vibrates in the band’s most popular songs, each of them calling to us with purpose.

From Salon Jun. 7, 2026

Each character seems to understand the others dimly, as through a language barrier; each vibrates at their own frequency.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 12, 2026

I feel a rush of air rising up from the stairwell, and the ground vibrates beneath my feet.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

They also approached the spiders with a tuning fork that vibrated at the same frequency as the insects’ beating wings.

From Science Magazine Dec. 4, 2024

People in the stands practically vibrated with it.

From Salon Aug. 7, 2024

She couldn’t approach them or even wave; she just stared and vibrated, like an awestruck cartoon character with her finger in a light socket.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2024

Ultimately, Pellegrino and his team completed the deployment through a motion of DOLCE's actuators that vibrated the whole structure and worked the jam free.

From Science Daily Jan. 17, 2024

The sound vibrated in the air and into Anya’s ears, making them ring as she fled.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

“I always spent the end of the day on ‘Widow’s Bay’ going, ‘My God, I’m exhausted’ — because you’re just vibrating on a higher level with Tom,” Rhys said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2026

It’s another one of those quiet storm numbers; everything is still vibrating at a very high level.

From Salon Aug. 25, 2026

"It then carried on going for a couple of minutes but there was a horrible vibrating sound."

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

After a particularly long, road rage-y drive, I splashed my face with ice water, a tip I learned on TikTok, to see if it might take the edge off my vibrating tension.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

Olanna could feel the ground underneath vibrating with each boom.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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