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as in pulse

a rhythmic expanding and contracting I seemed to feel anew the pain of her death with each throb of my heart

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verb

ˈthräb

as in to pulse

to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner the car's stereo speakers throbbing with the song's bass line

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Noun

Cha See’s lights flicker, the actors’ bodies warp and tremble, and Fan Zhang’s underscoring throbs with surreal menace. —

Sara Holdren, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024 The music, which Carpenter recorded with his longtime collaborators — Cody Carpenter (his son) and Daniel Davies (his godson) — throbs with propulsive bass and icy synths. —

Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2024

Verb

Woman from 1925, also known as Woman in Three Stages, shows desire, detachment and death on the same canvas while a man throbs with pain off to the side. —

Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024 My feet were throbbing — courtesy of a pair of much-too expensive and much-too tight shoes purchased during our stopover in Rome — and my body was weakened after more than a month of diarrhoea and vomiting. —

Teresa Grøtan (tr. Caroline Waight), The Dial, 12 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for throb

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Noun

When officers arrived on the scene, the toddler was unresponsive, had an elevated pulse and shallow breathing.

— KC Baker, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025
The pulse of the 1970s The roots of hip-hop and house music both lie in the seismic shifts of the late 1970s, a period of sociopolitical unrest and electronic experimentation that redefined the possibilities of sound.

— Joycelyn Wilson, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2025