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vibrate

[vahy-brayt] / ˈvaɪ breɪt /


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Lisa-Kaindé: It’s about living in a way that is aligned with what makes you vibrate, what makes you feel alive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 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

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

Robin could hear the wood in the door vibrate with the sound, for John lay just outside the room, to guard it.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

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

"Some atoms report where the charge is going, while others reveal how the whole molecule vibrates."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 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

Since the string is taut, it vibrates quickly, producing sound waves, if you pluck it, or rub it with a bow.

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

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

Each sample was then placed on the actuator and vibrated at ultrasonic frequencies.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2025

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

The researchers measured the opening between vocal folds—known as the glottal gap—as they opened, closed, and vibrated while the women spoke at different pitches.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 17, 2023

The silence vibrated, as if with things beneath it struggling to break through.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

“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

There were demonstrations of a countertop mill for grinding wheat into homemade flour and a vibrating platform that purports to drain the lymphatic system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

My eyes shoot open the next morning and I look for what woke me, seeing my phone vibrating noisily on the floor, having free-fallen off the table.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott




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