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heartbeat

[hahrt-beet] / ˈhɑrtˌbit /
NOUN
pulse
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“They are the essence of the brand, and really understand the heartbeat of the brand,” said Partridge, Tapatío’s new chairman.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

Once in the late 1950s, while building machinery to record sounds a heart makes, he accidentally used the wrong resistor, but its electrical pulse rate was steady, like a heartbeat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

‘Kharg is not just another asset. It is Iran’s economic heartbeat.’

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

They say they would have paid the £220 to have her vaccinated privately "in a heartbeat".

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Long after I had left the Wild West Show behind me, I could still feel the vibrations of those explosions, a thrum as steady as a second heartbeat.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros