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heartbeatlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From heartbeat + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling a heartbeat.
   • Conjuring up images of Gene Hackman as the surveillance expert in Francis Ford Coppola ’s film “The Conversation,” Mr. Morton moved through the park surreptitiously for more than 40 days over the course of a year, capturing gospel choirs, park-bench arguments, the rattle of dead leaves and the heartbeatlike clack of lawn-bowling balls. 2009 July 6, Randy Kennedy, “Sound Tunnel: Avant-Garde Park Portrait”, in New York Times:

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