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as in back
a vulnerable point
before the tournament she studied tapes of her chief rival, looking for the chink in her game
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Recent Examples of chink
Todd Boss, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, Liverpool come into this battle with some chinks in their armour.
—Oli Gamp, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 24 Oct. 2024
But already chinks in the vault’s armor have appeared.
—Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
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Noun
However, some chinks in the armor have been exposed, and Johns failed to claim the No. 1 spot in either Men’s Singles or Men’s Doubles at the end of 2024.
—Todd Boss, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, Liverpool come into this battle with some chinks in their armour.
—Oli Gamp, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
Verb
One of our challenges was thinking up a good chinking method that wouldn’t take an entire month.
—Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 24 Oct. 2024
But already chinks in the vault’s armor have appeared.
—Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chink
Noun
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Perhaps anticipating the collision, video footage showed the goat leaping into the air and brushing Smith’s leg and back wheel.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
12 May 2025
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My mattress feels like new as the panels holding it up keep the bed firm to support my back.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
12 May 2025
Noun
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Plus, there’s a crevice tool and smaller hair screw tool attachments that can be used as a handheld vac to get pet hair in hard-to-reach places.—
Nena Farrell,
Wired News,
3 May 2025
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Make sure to cover every surface of the plant, especially on the undersides of leaves and in crevices between stems.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
30 Apr. 2025
Verb
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To show that behind the wine glasses clinking in celebration, there are also tears, fears and moments of reckoning.—
Jessica Guerrieri,
People.com,
9 May 2025
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Applause and clinking glasses greeted each celebrity ascent up the Met’s iconic steps.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
7 May 2025
Noun
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Zachary Naegele, 24, was competing at the Conley Invitational in Palmetto, Florida, last week when the bull’s horn punctured his jugular, causing blood to stream out in a heart-pounding, caught-on-camera moment.—
Michael Dorgan,
Fox News,
15 Feb. 2025
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Gone are the days of Ami Cusack cutting down men without hesitation or Natalie Bolton flossing her teeth with Jason Siska’s jugular.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
12 Dec. 2024
Noun
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But his return to center stage—or at least his self-invitation to it—is showing the fissures in a party that hasn’t fully decided if Biden is friend or foe, the party elder who stepped aside or the has-been who didn’t know when to exit.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
8 May 2025
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This case exposes a wide fissure in the foundation.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
2 May 2025
Verb
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And that repeating first couplet — which comprises six of the poem’s 18 lines and occupied the first day of this challenge — will surely jingle in your pocket for a long time to come.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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Men dressed as 1880s gunfighters are forever clomping up and down wooden sidewalks with jingling spurs and holstered revolvers on their belts.—
Richard Grant,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Ajay Devgn is back as Amay Patnaik in Raid 2, and the sequel digs deeper into the underbelly of India’s political corruption.—
Sweta Kaushal,
Forbes.com,
6 May 2025
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Today the silk duvets are still sewn by hand in the underbelly of the hotel.—
Madeline Weinfield,
Architectural Digest,
5 May 2025
Noun
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Kennedy’s rise represents a growing epistemological rift in the country.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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But that would cause another trade-like rift with world powers that Washington has just made good with.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
19 May 2025
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“Chink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chink. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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