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• n  (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)
• v  expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
• v  produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses
• v  drive by or as if by pulsation

• The reality of racism and sexism pulsing behind Imus' words is what matters.
• The reefs of Eilat were an underwater wonderland, where forests of coral teemed with sea horses and with schools of pulsing, multicolored fish that looked as though they had been .
• Over a pulsing synthesizer, a ticking clock, a rumbling timpani and countless other perfectly calibrated whirs and beeps, Madonna declares, "I don't like cities, but I like New .

• pulsation
• pulse
• impulse
• pulsate
• throb

News & Articles

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• Weightless Flames: How Fires Burn in Space
  SAN DIEGO — How do you put out a fire on a space station? If you were to ask an Earthbound firefighter how to extinguish a fire, he might tell you to aim for the base of the flame. But what if there is no base? What if the flame is a large, pulsing ball of intense fire?
  June 11, 2013 - SPACE.com via Yahoo! News
• How fires burn in weightlessness of space
  By Rod PyleSpace.comSAN DIEGO — How do you put out a fire on a space station? If you were to ask an Earthbound firefighter how to extinguish a fire, he might tell you to aim for the base of the flame. But what if there is no base? What if the flame is a large, pulsing ball of intense fire?These and other questions are being probed by a group of undergraduate students here at the microgravity lab ...
  June 11, 2013 - MSNBC
• NSA data mining
  Details on millions of American phone calls. Records of e-mails, texts, video chats and more from overseas. And pulsing beneath it all, a worrying concern there's more to the government's surveillance programs than what's been acknowledged.
  June 8, 2013 - CNN

Quotes

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• Brandon Flowers in FOXNews
  The pop instinct is definitely glowing right now for us. It's like pulsing,says Flowers.
• Jennifer 8 Lee in Brandon Sun
  Chinese food has become an American comfort food in part because it is predictable,Lee writes. "At times it seems that America's Chinese restaurants operate as a single giant, pulsing entity, a lively example of one of the most fertile...
• Joe Bastardi in Men's News Daily
  The pattern is pulsing just at the worst time of the season, when the Atlantic season, on average, becomes alive,said Bastardi.