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pulse

noun as in rhythm, beat

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It produces radio pulses every 14 minutes, just like the average human heart, beating 60 times per minute.

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"It's a pump that will pulse in both sides, to create beating in both chambers, and allow people currently waiting for a transplant, people with terminal heart deficiencies, to keep on living."

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Velasco’s mastery with paint and perspective, in both senses, is obvious—and once one understands what he was up to, the paintings pulse with meaning.

Or what it feels like to ride the slow heaving of the ocean, pulsing like the heartbeat of the world.

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The club hits pulsed, her dancing was evocative and precise, and the set was again punctuated with a locally-sourced cover from each city she performs in; this time “The Chain” from Fleetwood Mac.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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