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pulses

  • present tense form of pulse (3rd person singular).

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In honor of World Pulses Day 2023, I would like to highlight five pulses that have unique properties and stories.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2023

Pulses and vegetables are abundant in the Mediterranean diet, and a typical main dish at lunch or dinner consists of vegetables, legumes and olive oil.

From Seattle Times • May 2, 2022

Pulses of cooler weather late this weekend and late next week offer only, bite-size bits of winter in between prevailing mild periods.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2021

And “Magnetic Pulses Cripple Wall Street as Financial District’s Hard Drives are Wiped” seems like a pretty informative, if not completely related subhead.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2018

Pulses and breathing quickened, intent eyes probed the shadows as if she thought to wrest from them a clue to the mystery of her status in the household of Victor Vassilyevski.

From Red Masquerade by Vance, Louis Joseph