: something resembling a game of table tennis
especially
: a series of usually verbal exchanges between two parties
… a ping-pong of absurdist dialogue … —
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C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2026
Marty Mauser wants to be the greatest ping-pong player on Earth.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
Chalamet leads Marty Supreme as Marty Mauser, a hot-shot ping-pong player (and shoe salesman) in New York City in the 1950s.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Mar. 2026
Players use a paddle, similar to a ping-pong paddle, to attempt to hit the ball past the opposing team.
—Dominick Williams
march 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026
Marty Supreme, on which Ronald was a writer and producer as well as the editor, burst onto the awards-season scene in the fall with an arms-outstretched audacity that would make its would-be ping-pong-champ protagonist proud.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2026
Marty is a conniving, hyper-ambitious ping-pong ace in the 1950s who goes to extreme lengths and sacrifices important relationships in his pursuit of table tennis greatness.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
The members of the Everglades coalition, versed in ping-pong, were now playing tennis.
—Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2026
This is mainly limited to the older celluloid ping-pong balls, which were traditionally made from nitrocellulose.
—Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 26 Feb. 2026
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In other words, winning is costing Brooklyn position in the race for ping-pong balls.
—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2026
Marty Mauser wants to be the greatest ping-pong player on Earth.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
Chalamet leads Marty Supreme as Marty Mauser, a hot-shot ping-pong player (and shoe salesman) in New York City in the 1950s.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Mar. 2026
Players use a paddle, similar to a ping-pong paddle, to attempt to hit the ball past the opposing team.
—Dominick Williams
march 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026
Marty Supreme, on which Ronald was a writer and producer as well as the editor, burst onto the awards-season scene in the fall with an arms-outstretched audacity that would make its would-be ping-pong-champ protagonist proud.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2026
Marty is a conniving, hyper-ambitious ping-pong ace in the 1950s who goes to extreme lengths and sacrifices important relationships in his pursuit of table tennis greatness.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
The members of the Everglades coalition, versed in ping-pong, were now playing tennis.
—Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2026
This is mainly limited to the older celluloid ping-pong balls, which were traditionally made from nitrocellulose.
—Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 26 Feb. 2026
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“Ping-pong.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ping-pong. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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