pulse
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The “coastally trapped” aquatic pulse has been slithering up the coast for weeks, fascinating scientists and weather watchers as it marched across the equatorial Pacific before splitting upon hitting the coast of Peru.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Krasner’s small, tight accretions of repetitive marks and shapes seem airless and uninflected; even the densest of Pollock’s early, layered pours pulse and breathe, his touch liberated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
As a result, the change can appear and vanish almost as quickly as the light pulse itself.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
World Athletics says those decisions were taken based on the popularity of each event and data it gathered on viewer behaviour, including sweat response and pulse rate.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
I can feel Autumn’s finger pulse, as if asking me what the heck is going on.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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“Heavy Metal” mostly leaned minimal, with spare electronics and occasional percussion, and here Mr. Winter’s piano is thick with chords and repeating pulses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Data runs through the glass, in the form of pulses of light, at the speed of over 100,000 miles per second.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Researchers often protect quantum memories from environmental interference using microwave pulses that separate, or decouple, the memory from surrounding noise.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
The startup’s design creates all that energy by linking together 156 modules, or movable shipping container-sized machines, that each emit pulses of energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Optical fibers, by contrast, can carry very high-frequency optical pulses on the same individual fiber without substantial signal degradation for many, many miles.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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The “biohack” begins at the BioCharger’s base, where a large coil creates pulsed electromagnetic fields.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The bar in East Flagler Street pulsed with life and danced to the beat of the World Cup.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Sound Wave has said it holds the basic patents in Japan and the U.S. for a method to treat early Alzheimer’s disease with low intensity pulsed ultrasound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Mix with pulsed chickpeas and garlic for a creamier version of hummus.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026
Heat rose up the sides of her neck and pulsed into her cheeks.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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Behind a nearby doorway, another side of Bradford was pulsing to a very different rhythm.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Florence and its surroundings move Muratov profoundly, especially because this region best expresses the 15th-century Renaissance, or Quattrocento, in which he senses “the beating of a great heart pulsing with pure and noble blood.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The video, set to pulsing music, delivering a scathing critique of the system that he once tried to reform.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
And pulsing is no joke — one exercise left my calves shaking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
On his shoulder, Small Bob the kitten purred almost as loudly as the pulsing heart of Tartarus.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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