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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Recent Examples of throb
Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 5 Nov. 2024
The music throbs and flourishes; so does the stage, loaded up with gondolas and chandeliers, fog and fashion and fur and roller-skates.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2024
Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2025
The next morning, my legs were still throbbing but guess what?
—Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2025
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Noun
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—Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 5 Nov. 2024
The music throbs and flourishes; so does the stage, loaded up with gondolas and chandeliers, fog and fashion and fur and roller-skates.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2024
Verb
My toothache throbbed all the way down my neck as my cab passed shop windows filled with fresh pasta the color of spring hay, icebergs of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, and ladies forming tiny tortellini around their fingertips, before dropping me off at an anonymous building in the centro storico.
—Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2025
The next morning, my legs were still throbbing but guess what?
—Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for throb
Noun
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Chance arrived at the hospital with a pulse and made a full recovery.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
21 May 2025
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Maggie raced to Isobel’s side and found no pulse, beckoning the others to call 911….—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
20 May 2025
Verb
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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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Madrid were soundly beaten 5-1 on aggregate by Arsenal in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
Verb
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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
Verb
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The bot is then hooked up to a device known as a pneumatic ring oscillator, which delivers a pulsating 2.25-bar (32.6-psi) air current into channels within the robot's body.—
Ben Coxworth
May 28,
New Atlas,
28 May 2025
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Richter’s monumental canvas elevates the fast tempos and raw, unpolished sound of punk music into complex compositions that pulsate with energy and emotion.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2025
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The Broad palpitated with energy.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2025
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The finale had the impossible task of putting the monstrous show to an unquiet grave, and while some storylines seemed rushed and others completely ignored, even everyone’s least favorite season of GOT is heart palpitating.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Throb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throb. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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