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Recent Examples of pulsate
The pulsating thriller is mostly confined to the restaurant, making audiences feel trapped alongside the film's heroine.
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Jessica Wang, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The result is a pulsating world filled with intricate rituals, mind control and menacing holograms.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 1 May 2025
The Russian Defense Ministry published video on Saturday showing units practising tactics in groups of two or three motorbikes, with a rider seen navigating a course to the sound of a pulsating electronic soundtrack.
—Daria Tarasova Markina and Tim Lister, CNN Money, 27 Apr. 2025
White tells the story of the Scottish general’s bloody rise to power from his influential wife’s perspective — but through a pulsating soundtrack that includes original songs that span genres including hip-hop, neo-soul, R&B, rock, pop and gospel.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2025
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Jessica Wang, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The result is a pulsating world filled with intricate rituals, mind control and menacing holograms.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 1 May 2025
The Russian Defense Ministry published video on Saturday showing units practising tactics in groups of two or three motorbikes, with a rider seen navigating a course to the sound of a pulsating electronic soundtrack.
—Daria Tarasova Markina and Tim Lister, CNN Money, 27 Apr. 2025
White tells the story of the Scottish general’s bloody rise to power from his influential wife’s perspective — but through a pulsating soundtrack that includes original songs that span genres including hip-hop, neo-soul, R&B, rock, pop and gospel.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulsate
Verb
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Batteries of loudspeakers throbbed with a song whose refrain has become a catchphrase for those who want Mr. Yoon ousted.—
Choe Sang-Hun,
New York Times,
22 Mar. 2025
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President Trump, some of his cabinet members and his adviser Elon Musk sat ringside in Miami late Saturday night at the Ultimate Fighting Championship event — a spectacle of violence, throbbing music and cheering crowds that the president has long admired.—
Maggie Haberman,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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With an electropop base, an irresistible electric bass groove and enveloping harmonies, the song vibrates between what was and what will no longer be.—
Luisa Calle,
Billboard,
23 May 2025
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The soundtrack is a buffet of rapturous period jazz, some of it silky, some of it vibrating with skittery energy, much like Martial Solal’s score for Breathless itself.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
18 May 2025
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The men beat 27-year-old Chin with a baseball bat, cracking his skull.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
31 May 2025
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The Oilers, who finished third in the Pacific Division, beat the Los Angeles Kings in six games, the Vegas Golden Knights in five games and the Dallas Stars in five games to return to the Stanley Cup Final.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
30 May 2025
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Thousands of the sea animals gather in the shallow waters off the coast, their bodies pulsing with different colors and hypnotic movements.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
26 May 2025
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Working between Seoul and Amsterdam, her practice occupies a space between the mechanical and the visceral, the kinetic sculptures tend to pulse with raw emotion.—
Nargess Banks,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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“Pulsate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulsate. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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