vibrate
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At ordinary temperatures, heat causes atoms to vibrate constantly.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 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
“You can kind of feel it vibrate when it’s that close to you,” the Los Angeles native said of the impact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 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
Seth could feel the ground vibrate as Hugo approached.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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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
The noise vibrates in my rib cage, it is so loud, and then the scarred man and his two companions begin to walk with slow, careful movements toward me.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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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
Dali made that famous masterpiece, “The Persistence of Memory,” in 1931, a breath-holding moment between wars when daily life looked normal enough but vibrated with the dread that no, things were definitely not OK.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Each sample was then placed on the actuator and vibrated at ultrasonic frequencies.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2025
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
The birches and wild grasses vibrated with impossible color after their time in the burned land, Edenic and fortifying.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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This conversation, which took place in a backstage trailer vibrating from the country and hip-hop tunes emanating from nearby stages, has been edited for length and clarity.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
A critical feature was how long the device could continue vibrating.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
José Rivera’s “Marisol” came out around the same time as Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” and both plays, vibrating with millennial anxieties, carry the earthly battle for human survival up to the heavens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
"It then carried on going for a couple of minutes but there was a horrible vibrating sound."
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
We fall silent except for the chugging of the machine, the vest vibrating away.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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