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vibrate

[vahy-brayt] / ˈvaɪ breɪt /


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Acting somewhat like a microscopic tuning fork, the resonator can vibrate for two milliseconds.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

“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

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

"Cathy and Heathcliff's passions vibrate through their dress, their surroundings, and everything else within reach, and you leave the cinema quivering on their own private frequency."

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

The whole string can vibrate back and forth.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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 hold the phone in my hand as it vibrates relentlessly.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

Inside the machine, which looked like a large blender with a metal doughnut inside, blue and orange lights vibrated within glass tubes, while feathery electricity danced out the top.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

About an hour after the first message, phones again vibrated with a new alert from the Home Front Command, telling people they could leave shelters and protected areas.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2024

“It just hit me here in my visceral and vibrated through me and that was it,” recalls Creed Bratton of that fateful day nearly 70 years ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 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 word mustered inside her, air swirled around in her lungs, her vocal cords vibrated, her lips readied.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

The Oxford team achieved this using a quantum system that combines qubits, the basic units of quantum information, with quantum oscillators, which represent vibrating motion.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

Scares fall by the wayside when it shifts into a more philosophical gear, vibrating with questions about how to live a meaningful life: Should these victims accept their fate or keep struggling?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

The string vibrating in halves produces the second harmonic; vibrating in thirds produces the third harmonic, and so on.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones


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