dilation
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Caffeine temporarily shrinks blood vessels and less dilation means less visible swelling.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
Not only do we tend to mirror each other’s movements, postures, facial expressions and gestures; we also uncannily sync up our heart rates, blood pressure, pupil dilation and hormonal activity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Caffeine has a time dilation on it so it could be hours that I’m in there or 30 minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025
She developed a serious infection and went to the hospital, where physicians would ordinarily have performed a dilation and curettage to remove the remaining tissue.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2024
The room must be reading her heartbeat, her sweat, her pupil dilation.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
"For the highest-performing participants, their pupil dilations were both larger overall and the individuals were more discerning about the information they were asked to recall."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2024
Like all beauties, these are dilations of time.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2021
The stopped time of a painting, say, or the dilations of the novel, in which it is possible to see patterns and consequences that are otherwise invisible.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 21, 2020
The results showed that people with consistently larger pupil dilations made the most erratic decisions.
From Forbes ● Sep. 24, 2014
After five years my body became so strong that I could control even the dilations of the pupils inside my irises.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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