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vibrate

[vahy-brayt] / ˈvaɪ breɪt /


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“Nothing beats feeling the ground vibrate, seeing the charting of the wheels and hearing the whistle,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

“You can kind of feel it vibrate when it’s that close to you,” the Los Angeles native said of the impact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Some of Epicore Biosystems' devices vibrate gently when they calculate that it is time for you to take a swig of fluid, to avoid becoming dehydrated.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

One challenge is that piezoelectric resonators physically vibrate, which means they cannot be attached to circuit boards using standard soldering techniques.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2026

The pages of a recently finished story seemed to vibrate in her hand with all the life they contained.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Some fans do just that, but the packed stadium vibrates harder with cheers as thousands of phones stay in the air.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

"What happens in any part of this ocean vibrates through all of us," she told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Nevertheless, Bonnie’s doting parents hope that Lilypad will help Bonnie make friends, oblivious to how the gizmo — and soon, their daughter — vibrates with anxiety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Even if you never bore witness to that outrageous performance, its elemental alchemy vibrates in the band’s most popular songs, each of them calling to us with purpose.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

The sound vibrates in my teeth, in my bones, pulsing until I think something might shatter.

From "Red Queen" by Victoria Aveyard

Inside the machine, which looked like a large blender with a metal doughnut inside, blue and orange lights vibrated within glass tubes, while feathery electricity danced out the top.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Dali made that famous masterpiece, “The Persistence of Memory,” in 1931, a breath-holding moment between wars when daily life looked normal enough but vibrated with the dread that no, things were definitely not OK.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

Each sample was then placed on the actuator and vibrated at ultrasonic frequencies.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2025

At around 15:00 on Sunday, mobiles vibrated and sounded for about 10 seconds in the second test of the system.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2025

Just before dawn the air vibrated with something that was almost—but not quite—a sound.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

"We have seen that vibrating objects can exhibit quantum behavior, which is the prerequisite for many of the operations needed by quantum computing and sensing."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

It’s another one of those quiet storm numbers; everything is still vibrating at a very high level.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

Scares fall by the wayside when it shifts into a more philosophical gear, vibrating with questions about how to live a meaningful life: Should these victims accept their fate or keep struggling?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

"It then carried on going for a couple of minutes but there was a horrible vibrating sound."

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

The metal in front of them was vibrating, as if it was breathing.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis




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