as in minute
a very small space of time
I'd accept a job offer from that company in a heartbeat
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Recent Examples of heartbeat
Symptoms of panic or anxiety can include chest pain, shortness of breath, sweating, and a fast heartbeat.
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Carisa Brewster, Verywell Health, 9 Dec. 2024
The whole track flutters with ecstasy, especially the racing, clubby drum track, racing like a heartbeat.
—Alex Suskind, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
This has occurred, ProPublica found, even in cases like Porsha’s where there isn’t a fetal heartbeat or the circumstances should fall under an exception in the law.
—Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 25 Nov. 2024
That data showed not just Riley's location, but her speed of running and her rate of heartbeat, Wesley Durkit, a UGA Police Department IT security analyst, testified.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024
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Carisa Brewster, Verywell Health, 9 Dec. 2024
The whole track flutters with ecstasy, especially the racing, clubby drum track, racing like a heartbeat.
—Alex Suskind, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
This has occurred, ProPublica found, even in cases like Porsha’s where there isn’t a fetal heartbeat or the circumstances should fall under an exception in the law.
—Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 25 Nov. 2024
That data showed not just Riley's location, but her speed of running and her rate of heartbeat, Wesley Durkit, a UGA Police Department IT security analyst, testified.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heartbeat
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Just pop it in the microwave for a delicious and filling dish in minutes.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Arredondo has claimed that he has simply been picked as the scapegoat among hundreds of officers from various agencies who were on the scene in Uvalde but waited more than 70 minutes before storming a classroom and killing 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos.Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 19 Dec. 2024
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Witkoff was with Trump during the apparent second assassination attempt on his life, telling NBC that Secret Service agents dived on Trump and got him off his Florida golf course in under 20 seconds.Sara Dorn, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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Machine learning has allowed criminals to create deepfake videos impersonating people and to clone voices with only a few seconds of audio.Matt Burgess, WIRED, 25 Dec. 2024
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But as with most beloved pop culture moments, fans intensely romanticize it more than those who were actually involved.Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2024
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Through the lens: Despite global unrest in the Middle East and Ukraine and migration crises around the world, Christians built and celebrated creative nativity scenes to seek moments of peace.Aïda Amer, Axios, 25 Dec. 2024
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“Heartbeat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heartbeat. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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