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palpitating
vs
pitter-patter
palpitating
adj
Very exciting
pitter-patter
noun
A soft, percussive sound, as of tiny feet, or of rain on a rooftop.
How often have the words
palpitating
and
pitter-patter
occurred in a corpus of books?
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