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vibrate

[vahy-breyt] / ˈvaɪ breɪt /


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At ordinary temperatures, heat causes atoms to vibrate constantly.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 2026

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

Rare earths are likewise found in every smartphone, enhancing screen performance and enabling the phone to vibrate.

From Barron's Feb. 4, 2026

Something heavy enough to make the ground vibrate.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

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

Nevertheless, Bonnie’s doting parents hope that Lilypad will help Bonnie make friends, oblivious to how the gizmo — and soon, their daughter — vibrates with anxiety.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 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

Later that night, when Nana and I are watching TV, my phone vibrates.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

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

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

People in the stands practically vibrated with it.

From Salon Aug. 7, 2024

His eyes were fixed on something and his legs vibrated and stopped, his hands did the same, and then finally his fingers, but his eyes remained open, transfixed on the top of the forest.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

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

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

“It’s vibrating all night, trying to get air across both me and my wife with the tiniest fan you’ve ever seen,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

In one part of the conveyor system, a vibrating panel called an eddy current creates a sort of reverse magnet that repels nonferrous materials like aluminum beverage cans into their own collection area.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

Researchers later realized this pattern resembles the harmonics of a vibrating string.

From Science Daily May 19, 2026

The next day I stare out the window, watching the afternoon winter sun slowly near the horizon as the steady vibrating of my AffloVest thrums away at my chest.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott




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