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  • present participle of throb.
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throbbing

[throb-ing] / ˈθrɒb ɪŋ /














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Set to a throbbing synth bassline, the song teases fans by interpolating a line from her 1980s classic Into The Groove: "Out here on the dance floor, I feel so free."

From BBC Apr. 15, 2026

He is a throbbing mass of malevolence, turned up — to reference Reiner’s “This Is Spinal Tap” — to 11.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 17, 2025

When the aircraft parked and the doors opened, Harris said his head was throbbing, he felt confused and was struggling to string sentences together.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 12, 2025

She told me I may see her third eye throbbing there when she entered her trance.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 8, 2025

My face is throbbing and there’s a sharp sting on the side of my nose.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

She had found peace in days gone by as she looked calmly out over the waste of waters whither she was floating, and felt no hard throbbings of the heart where love was dying!

From Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Ida Glenwood

Dimly at first, in the painful throbbings of returning consciousness, Blaine knew he was in one of the Llott workshops where machines hummed and pounded and where many operatives were busily engaged.

From The Copper-Clad World by Harl Vincent

Lie still, my heart, lest these convulsive throbbings Mar my last wish.

From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Jane Alice Sargant

And her heart leaps suddenly; its tumultuous throbbings nearly suffocate her.

From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lawrence L. Lynch

I might snatch it perhaps but for these mad throbbings, this veil over my eyes, the dryness of my lips.

From Woman by Magdeleine Marx




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