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Finds out if beatings are regular (5,3,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

feels the pulse

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'beatings are regular' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.

'finds out' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'finds' could be 'feels' ('feel' can be a synonym of 'find') and 'feels' is found within the answer.
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