HEARTBEATS Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

heartbeats

noun

plural of heartbeat

as in minutes

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 heartbeats Poetic structure, such as cadence, meter and rhyme, invokes rhythms that tie into human heartbeats and breathing. — Dana Kelley, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026 Gabe wears a bracelet containing some of her final heartbeats and her fingerprint. — Ashley Sharp, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 Others include Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s light and sound installation Pulse Topology (2021), installed in 2023, in which visitors’ heartbeats inform the pulse of lights hanging overhead. — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026 Simpson was diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, a rare heart condition that can cause irregular heartbeats and sudden cardiac death in seemingly healthy individuals, per John Hopkins Medicine. — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026 Researchers often use heart rate variability − the small differences in time between heartbeats − as one way to assess how that system is functioning. — Donnisa Edmonds, jsonline.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Everything in the body runs in vibratory cycles from heartbeats to brainwaves to sleep-wake cycles. — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 But the most striking of the new songs is the opener, a slow-motion unfurling against a backdrop of heartbeats and zithers. — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 18 July 2026 In response to safety concerns, several medications have been removed from the list eligible for refills, including a drug for irregular heartbeats. — ABC News, 6 July 2026

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Noun

Slemmer was beaten and cut with a meat cleaver and a box cutter for somewhere between 30 minutes and an hour.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
According to Rubin, online criticisms against the store emerged 15 minutes after Clarkson left the store.

— Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of minutes

Noun

The fastest breakout was 27 seconds, and one intrusion reached full data exfiltration in four minutes.

— Asaf Wiener, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Mahomes spent roughly a dozen seconds venting about a topic neither of them want to detail now, before Eric Bieniemy nodded his head.

— Sam McDowell October 16, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of seconds

Noun

These are but moments in an auteur’s widescreen epic that never sits still.

— Ben Cardew, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2026
Canada banged awkwardly into Williams’ knee on a box out during her late free throws and the Valkyries’ star was being cared for by an athletic trainer on the bench in the waning moments.

— Janie McCauley, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026

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